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The role of today's education on the association between women's employment and fertility in Turkey

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Low fertility is a global issue, affecting both developed and developing countries where opportunity cost of fertility for working women is an outstanding factor. Education plays a very strong role on fertility decline but present study focuses on the role of women's employment on fertility decline and investigates whether the role of education still existing on the association between women's employment and fertility. Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for Turkey from 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2013, and 2018, the study runs a series of Poisson regression analyses for each year. Overall, findings show that women's employment and education are independently associated with married women's number of children. In conclusion, changing socio-economic structures made women choose their career over their fertility regardless of their social status (measured through education); thus, Turkish government should focus on pronatalist policies to ease the cost of fertility and childrearing for employed women to control fertility decline.

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  • Dogan Hatun, 2025. "The role of today's education on the association between women's employment and fertility in Turkey," International Journal of Happiness and Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 9(4), pages 331-345.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijhdev:v:9:y:2025:i:4:p:331-345
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