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The effects of education, health, and social security on fertility in developing countries

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  • Cochrane, Susan H.

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This paper analyzes the effects of education, health and social security on fertility in developing countries. Spending on education does not necessarily reduce fertility. For example, with small amounts of education fertility tends to increase before falling off at the level of completed primary school; its specific effect can only be measured by working at a particular population group. Health care services which reduce child mortality also reduce fertility when life expectancy reaches a level which anticipates the need for fewer children. Generally, this is a more costly way to reduce fertility than family planning. Lastly, even though the general effect of social security systems on fertility is more difficult to study and quantify, a preliminary estimate shows it to be the most costly method, compared with education, health care and family planning.

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  • Cochrane, Susan H., 1988. "The effects of education, health, and social security on fertility in developing countries," Policy Research Working Paper Series 93, The World Bank.
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    1. Giota Panopoulou & Panos Tsakloglou, 1999. "Fertility and economic development: theoretical considerations and cross-country evidence," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(11), pages 1337-1351.
    2. Ernest Simeon O. Odior, 2014. "Government Expenditure on Education and Poverty Reduction: Implications for Achieving the MDGS in Nigeria a Computable General Equilibrium Micro-Simulation Analysis," Asian Economic and Financial Review, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 4(2), pages 150-172, February.
    3. Alexia Prskawetz & Gunter Steinmann & Gustav Feichtinger, 1998. "A model on the escape from the Malthusian trap," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 11(4), pages 535-550.

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