Fertility and the Education of African Parents and Children.

Autor/in	Vogl, Tom
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Fertility and the Education of African Parents and Children.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research (2022), 44 S. PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w30474
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w30474
Schlagwörter	Bildungsverhalten; Bildungsniveau; Jugend; Familienplanung; Fertilität; Eltern; Kind; Kinderbetreuung; Elternbildung; Arbeitspapier; Subsahara-Afrika
Abstract	Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits higher fertility and lower education than other world regions. Economic and demographic theory posit that these phenomena are linked, with slow fertility decline connected to slow education growth among both adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African countries, this paper documents the co-evolution of adult education, fertility, and child education in female birth cohorts surrounding the onset of the region's fertility transition. Fertility change displays a robust negative relationship with the educational outcomes of adult women but a more nuanced relationship with the educational outcomes of children. As fertility declines, children's grade attainment rises, but their school enrollment does not. The divergence is partly explained by a split in how women's education relates to fertility and child education. Rising women's education predicts declining fertility and rising children's grade attainment, but it is less systematically linked to enrollment change.
Erfasst von	Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung - Leibniz-Zentrum für Lebenslanges Lernen, Bonn
Update	2023/1