Research Paper No. 742
THE EFFECT OF EDUCATION ON THE TIMING OF MARRIAGE AND
FIRST CONCEPTION IN PAKISTAN
by
LATA GANGADHARAN AND PUSHKAR MAITRA
APRIL 2000
Department of Economics. University of Melbourne. Melbourne Victoria
3010 Australia
ABSTRACT
It is often argued that a rapid rise in educational attainment of
women, an increase in the age at marriage and an increase in the age at
first birth are key features of demographic transition in any country.
Education is the prime catalyst in this process because increases in educational
attainment are likely to significantly affect both age at marriage and
the duration to first conception-in particular increasing both the age
at marriage and the time to first child. This paper uses individual level
unit record data from Pakistan to examine the effect of education on the
age at marriage and on the duration between marriage and first conception.
We estimate a structural model, which accounts for the interaction between
the three main variables of interest. Our estimation results show that
women who have more education delay marriage but increased educational
attainment does not have a significant effect on the duration to first
conception. Women who marry late have a child faster. Education of the
husband significantly affects the time to conception.
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