Fertility Decline and Educational Progress Among African Women and Children.

IF 3.6 1区社会学 Q1 DEMOGRAPHY

Demography Pub Date : 2025-10-07 DOI:10.1215/00703370-12250354

Tom Vogl

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Abstract

Theories linking fertility decline to rising education levels among women and children have featured prominently in discussions of African fertility change. Using survey data from 33 countries, this article leverages cross-place and cross-cohort variation to assess these theories' relevance to the continent's transitions in both realized and desired fertility. Across countries and subnational regions, lower fertility is associated with greater education for both mothers and children. Across cohorts within a country or region, fertility decline remains associated with the educational progress of women but has at most a weak relationship with the educational progress of children. These findings corroborate existing evidence that women's education drives fertility change but indicate a more limited role for the interplay of the number of children and their education. Reductions in ideal family size more consistently predict children's educational progress, suggesting that this interplay may become more relevant to African fertility change as ideals shift and their implementation improves.

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非洲妇女和儿童的生育率下降和教育进步。

在有关非洲生育率变化的讨论中，将生育率下降与妇女和儿童教育水平提高联系起来的理论占据了突出地位。本文利用来自33个国家的调查数据，利用跨地区和跨队列的差异来评估这些理论与非洲大陆在实现和期望生育率方面的转变的相关性。在各国和次国家区域，较低的生育率与母亲和儿童接受更高的教育有关。在一个国家或区域内，生育率的下降仍然与妇女的教育进步有关，但与儿童的教育进步的关系最多是微弱的。这些发现证实了妇女受教育推动生育率变化的现有证据，但表明子女数量与其受教育之间相互作用的作用较为有限。理想家庭规模的减少更一致地预测了儿童的教育进步，这表明随着理想的转变和实施的改善，这种相互作用可能与非洲生育率的变化更加相关。

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Demography DEMOGRAPHY-

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5.90

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2.90%

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