Adolescent childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa
By N. Gupta, M. Mahy. 2003
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This article examines whether increased years of schooling exercised a consistent impact on delayed childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa. Data were drawn from Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in eight countries over the period 1987-1999. Multiple logistic regressions were used to assess trends and determinants in the probability of first birth during adolescence. Girls' education from about the secondary level onwards was found to be the only consistently significant covariate. No effect of community aggregate education was discernible, after controlling for urbanity and other individual-level variables. The results reinforce previous findings that improving girls' education is a key instrument for raising ages at first birth, but suggest that increases in schooling at lower levels alone bear only somewhat on the prospects for fertility decline among adolescents.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Safety Research
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In General Health Professions
- Samuel O. M. Manda
- Renate Meyer
- M. Ungar
- L. Ebersöhn
- L. Liebenberg
- L. Theron
- D. Fletcher
- Mustafa Sarkar
In Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
In Safety Research
- Samuel O. M. Manda
- Renate Meyer
- M. Ungar
- L. Ebersöhn
- L. Liebenberg
- L. Theron
- Mustafa Sarkar
- D. Fletcher
Citations in the corpus
- Age at first marriage in Malawi: a Bayesian multilevel analysis using a discrete time‐to‐event model (2005, background): “Under these conditions, even exposure to formal education may unexpectedly lead to high fertility, as education itself may undermine traditional practices that are aimed at controlling fertility (Gupta and Mahy, 2003).”
- 1. Putting Resilience Theory into Action: Five Principles for Intervention (2008, background): “In Tanzania, for example, where fewer than 50% of girls advance past Grade six, families may emphasize entrepreneurship as an alternative (Gupta & Mahy, 2003).”