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Fertility, Parental Education and Development in India: New Evidence from National Household Survey Data

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  • Katsushi S. Imai

    (Economics, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester (UK) and RIEB, Kobe University (Japan))

  • Takahiro Sato

    (Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University, Japan)

Abstract

This paper empirically investigates the determinants of fertility drawing upon large household data sets in India, namely NSS and NFHS over the period 1992-2006. Broadly similar and consistent results are found for the two surveys for different years. We have found a negative and significant association between the number of children and mother' s education. Both direct and indirect effects are observed for mother's education which not just directly reduces fertility but also increases mother's potential wages or opportunity costs which would deter her from having a baby. Father's education became increasingly important in reducing fertility in the last two rounds.

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  • Katsushi S. Imai & Takahiro Sato, 2010. "Fertility, Parental Education and Development in India: New Evidence from National Household Survey Data," Discussion Paper Series DP2010-17, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University.
    • Handle: RePEc:kob:dpaper:dp2010-17
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    1. Katsushi Imai & Samuel Kobina Annim & Raghav Gaiha & Veena S. Kulkarni, 2012. "Does Women’s Empowerment Reduce Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India?," Economics Discussion Paper Series 1209, Economics, The University of Manchester.
    2. José G Dias & Isabel Tiago de Oliveira, 2018. "Exploring unobserved household living conditions in multilevel choice modeling: An application to contraceptive adoption by Indian women," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(1), pages 1-17, January.
    3. Isabel Oliveira & José Dias, 2014. "Disentangling the relation between wealth and contraceptive use in India: a multilevel probit regression approach," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 48(2), pages 1001-1012, March.
    4. Katsushi S. Imai & Takahiro Sato, 2014. "Recent Changes in Micro-Level Determinants of Fertility in India: Evidence from National Family Health Survey Data," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(1), pages 65-85, March.

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    Keywords

    Fertility; Parental Education; NSS (National Sample Survey); NFHS (National Family Health Survey); India; Asia;
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