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  • Title: Contributions of other socio-economic factors to the fertility differentials of women by education: a multivariate approach.
    Author: Das Gupta P.
    Journal: Genus; 1984; 40(3-4):117-27. PubMed ID: 12267205.
    Abstract:
    Data derived from the 1970 US Census indicate that fertility declines with increasing education level. In this paper, the author uses a method she developed earlier for decomposing the difference between rates into several components. Specifically, the difference in average number of children between groups dichotomized on the basis of wife's education is decomposed in terms of 6 other socioeconomic factors--husband's education, husband's occupation, wife's age at marriage, race, wife's labor force status, and family income. The fertility of wives who were not high school graduates was compared to that of high school graduates, and then a similar comparison was made between wives with high school education only and those with college education. All 6 factors examined were found to contribute positively to the overall reduction in number of children when wives advanced from non-high school graduate status to high school graduate status. On the other hand, comparisons between wives with 4 years of high school and those with a college education indicates that the .158 difference between their average number of children increases if the averages are controlled for differences in husband's education, race, or family income. For a more meaningful comparison of the effects of the 6 factors, all were considered simultaneously. Together these factors explained 51.3% of the difference in average number of children between those with and without a high school education, with husband's education making the largest (15.1%) contribution. In terms of college educated versus high school educated wives, the 6 factors explained 72.3% of the fertility difference, with wife's age at marriage making the largest (63.9%) contribution.
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