Education and the global fertility transition

Thème de la conference : How education relates to sexual behaviour, contraceptive use and demographic trends ; Opportunity costs, changing norms and institutions, education and ‘social success’ versus having (many) children ; The effects of literacy, skills and female empowerment on the relationship between partners ; Education, culture, religion and fertility ; Differential access to family planning and use of family planning by level of education ; Identifying causal relations between education and fertility ; Links between the length of female education, skill levels, labour markets and childbearing ; Demographic simulations and counterfactual projections of the effects of different education pathways