Title: The Impact of Education, Income, and Mortality on Fertility in Jamaica
Abstract: The socioeconomic determinants of cumulative and recent fertility are investigated with micro data from Jamaica, a middle-income country with low rates of infant mortality and total fertility. Infant mortality has a significant nonlinear influence on fertility, peaking at a mortality rate of 0.46. Both education and income have strong negative effects on births but the impact of education is larger; for rural women the birth elasticities are −0.15 and −0.45 for income and education, respectively. Finally, the transmission of the education effect appears to be through raising the value of time of the woman rather than changing preferences.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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