Friday, November 4, 2011

Educated Female (Mothers) means smaller families (lower fertility), do you think so?

It is widely believed that with the increase of education level, women have less interest in taking more children. However, Moshe Hazan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hosny Zoabi, Tel Aviv University found something interesting in the work DO HIGHLY EDUCATED WOMEN CHOOSE SMALLER FAMILIES, that is for the advanced level of education shows higher TFR than some college degree. And they explained it as "highly educated women substitute a significant part of their own time for market services to raise children and run their households, which enables them to have more children and work longer hours."


Age specific fertility rate shows that TFR is highest for the high school dropout females and age group 20-24.


They conclude from this analysis that the total fertility rate is lowest among women with some college training, increases for women holding a college degree only and rising further for women with advanced degrees.


Here you can find the over time figure for those classification. 

Now, what do you think for Bangladesh? Are we following same as USA or not?


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