Education Gains Attributable to Fertility Decline: Patterns by Gender, Period, and Country in Latin America and Asia.

We investigate the heterogeneity across countries and time in the relationship between mother's fertility and children's educational attainment-the quantity-quality (Q-Q) trade-off-by using census data from 17 countries in Asia and Latin America, with data from each country spanning multiple census...

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Published in:	Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 1353 - 1374
Main Authors:	Li, Jing, Dow, William, Rosero-Bixby, Luis, Dow, William H
Format:	journal article
Published:	Springer Nature Aug2017
Subjects:	Asia Latin America Fertility decline Educational attainment Women's education Academic achievement Population Families Sex distribution Socioeconomic factors Developing countries Time
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