The significance of women's education on contraceptive use

• Main Author: Fatimah Zahra Abdul Mutalib
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51602
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, I aim to explore the mechanisms mediating the relationship between education and current contraceptive use in effort to stress the importance of women’s education in reducing fertility. I hypothesize that there are mainly three mechanisms through which women’s education influ...