The impact of female schooling on fertility and contraceptive use : a study of fourteen sub-Saharan countries : Impact de la scolarisation des femmes sur la fécondité et l'utilisation de la contraception en Afrique sub-Saharienne : étude de quatorze pays de l'Afrique sub-Saharienne (French)

This paper examines the relationship between female schooling and two behaviors - cumulative fertility and contraceptive use - in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries where Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) have been conducted since the mid-1980s. Using multivariate regression analysis, the paper compares the effect of female schooling across countries, in urban and rural areas, and across different cohorts of women. For the subsample of ever-married...
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Ainsworth,Martha; Beegle,Kathleen G.; Nyamete,Andrew V..

The impact of female schooling on fertility and contraceptive use : a study of fourteen sub-Saharan countries : Impact de la scolarisation des femmes sur la fécondité et l'utilisation de la contraception en Afrique sub-Saharienne : étude de quatorze pays de l'Afrique sub-Saharienne (French). Living standards measurement study (LSMS) working paper|no. LSM 110 Washington DC ; World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/397141468015048787

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