TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gupta, Neeru
A1  - Mahy, Mary
T1  - Adolescent childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa: Can increased schooling alone raise ages at first birth?
Y1  - 2003/02/14
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 93
EP  - 106
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.4
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol8/4/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol8/4/8-4.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol8/4/8-4.pdf
N2  - 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.

ER  -