ACADEMY FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, INC. (AED)
Education"s impact on girls : five generations of an Indian family
The current interest in educating girls is motivated not only by considerations of equity, but by the growing realization that girls" education is highly correlated with declines in fertility and child mortality and increases in children"s health and education.
Wolf, Joyce M.; Karra, Mihira · 1994
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Abstract
In an effort to understand why and how girls" education has these effects, the authors of this study conducted in-depth interviews with 178 individuals representing five generations of a complex family in India. The authors traced these family members to various cities, towns, and villages, and questioned them about family structure, marriage, education, fertility, contraception, childbirth, child care, decision making, medical knowledge, and use of medical facilities. Results document a process of change from zero years of education to advanced degrees, as well as the complexity of the factors attendant on that process, the effects of education on individuals and on the horizontal and vertical unit of the family, and patterns of how these effects are connected to one another and influence each other over time. (Author abstract, modified)
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