Abstract
Education influences womens childbearing patterns. Data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for nine Latin American countries show that women with no education have large families of 6-7 children while better educated women have only 2-3 children. However despite this wide differential in actual fertility between the two groups of women women across the education level spectrum share a small family norm. A 20-50% gap in contraceptive prevalence exists between the least educated and best educated women. Better educated women have broader knowledge higher socioeconomic status and less fatalistic attitudes toward reproduction than do less educated women. The results of a regression analysis indicate that cognitive economic and attitudinal assets mediate the influence of schooling upon reproductive behavior and partly explain the wide fertility gap between educational strata.
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