Question

literature review on education and fertility preference on fertility.

Answer 1

Whatever the country, more empowered women want significantly fewer children compared to their less empowered counterparts. The first step towards having fewer kids is formulating programs to improve women's economic empowerment. Education, skills growth, decision-making authority, and influence over household resources were the basic elements of women's empowerment that were essential for fertility preferences.

Consideration of postpartum factors (lactational amenorrhoea and sexual abstinence) may be brief, as their position is negligible in future fertility patterns. Suffice it to say that the fertility-enhancing effects of shorter and less intense lactation and early restart of post-birth sexual intercourse, both strongly associated with schooling, are typically overshadowed by greater use of fertility regulation. For today's medium fertility countries the future of marriage, itself highly affected by education, poses the single greatest uncertainty for future fertility forecasting. Demographers have ignored the subject badly and work in this area may pay high dividends

Contraceptive prevalence is already relatively high in today's medium fertility countries, and is expected to rise further. In this way, contraceptive discontinuation, failure and switching, along with abortion, will gradually become more important determinants of fertility among sexually active women. Surprisingly, female schooling is not a net indicator of the overall probability of Discontinuation while apparently still in need of protection, nor user- or method-failure This is one of the few instances in which schooling fails to produce good demographic results. Schooling is, however, linked with one key aspect of contraceptive conduct