Abstract The old African proverb “If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you
educate a woman you educate a family (nation)” was a pioneer in its time for realizing the …

METHODS: Data from the 2005 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey were used for a
two-step analysis; binary logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with …

Sub‐Saharan Africa will be the family planning frontier of the twenty‐first century. Fertility
levels and population growth rates are still high, and family planning programs suited to the …

CONTEXT: Variability in the conceptualization and measurement of women's empowerment
has resulted in inconsistent findings regarding the relationships between empowerment and …

BACKGROUND Extensive research in both developed and developing countries has shown
that preferences and intentions for future childbearing predict behavior. However, very little …

This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by
exploiting variation generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in …

This paper investigates the relationship between women's education and fertility by
exploiting a 1985 policy change in Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An …

The low school attainment, early marriage, and low age at first birth of females are major
policy concerns in less developed countries. This study jointly estimated the determinants of …

Motivated by the cost reductions and outcome improvements generated by benchmarking in
many industries, we focus on in-country global health programs to identify and quantify …

Despite substantial improvements in women's education, the age at which Latin American
women marry (cohabit) or become mothers for the first time has barely decreased over the …