Research Catalog

Title

Critical perspectives on schooling and fertility in the developing world / Caroline H. Bledsoe ... [et al.] editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bledsoe, Caroline H.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population.

Description

x, 320 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Schooling and fertility in the developing world

Subject

• Birth control > Study and teaching > Developing countries
• Contraception
• Family Planning Services
• Fertility
• Fertility, Human > Study and teaching > Developing countries
• Teenage girls > Education > Developing countries

Note

• "Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Female education and fertility: examining the links / Ian Diamond, Margaret Newby and Sarah Varle -- What is meant, and measured, by "education"? / Anthony T. Carter -- Implications of formal schooling for girls' transitions to adulthood in developing countries / Cynthia B. Lloyd and Barbara Mensch -- School quality, student achievement, and fertility in developing countries / Paul Glewwe -- Fertility, education, and resources in South Africa / Duncan Thomas -- Which girls stay in school? the influence of family economy, social demands, and ethnicity in South Africa / Bruce Fuller and Xiaoyan Liang -- Excess fertility, unintended births, and children's schooling / Mark K. Montgomery and Cynthia B. Lloyd -- Women's education, marriage, and fertility in South Asia: do men really not matter / Alaka Malwade Basu -- Fertility and education: what do we now know? / Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue.

ISBN

0309061911 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98040216^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library