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Title: Female Education and Fertility under State Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2015

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DOI: 10.3917/popu.1504.0731

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Abstract: Before the fall of the Berlin wall, did the countries of Eastern Europe all have similar levels of fertility ? Did the official policies of gender equality and access to education result in comparable behaviours by level of education ? How did social constraints come into play ? Using census data from seven of these countries, Zuzanna Brzozowska addresses these original research questions by studying the fertility of cohorts who had their children mostly during the socialist period. She applies decomposition and standardization methods to analyse the factors affecting fertility trends, including the central role of rising educational levels. The countries in her study saw a decrease in cohort fertility and a gradual narrowing of fertility differences by level of education, although some, such as Romania, followed a more atypical pattern.

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Authors: Brzozowska, Zuzanna

Periodical (Full): Population

Issue: 4

Volume: 70

Pages: 689 - 725

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Fertility and Mortality, Other

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