The first generation with mass schooling and the fertility transition: the case of Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.author Dissanayake, Lakshman
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-19T06:19:50Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-19T06:19:50Z
dc.date.issued 1996
dc.identifier.citation Health Transition Review, Vol. 6, Supplement. The Shaping of fertility andmortality declines: the contemporary demographic transition (1996), pp. 137-154 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://www.jstor.org/stable/40652256
dc.identifier.uri http://archive.cmb.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/70130/4482
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher National Center for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH), TheAustralian National University en_US
dc.subject The first generation with mass schooling and the fertility transition: the case of Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject This study attempts to explain the Sri Lankan fertility transition in terms of the pre- transition fertility regime and conditions leading to its destabilization. This study therefore deviates from previous studies of fertility in Sri Lanka which have largely focused upon the post-transitional fertility differentials. From the first formulation of demographic transition theory, education has been used as a significant factor relating to the fertility transition, but Caldwell's 'mass education-fertility transition9 thesis can be regarded as the major attempt to explain the relationship between education and the onset of the fertility transition, with education a central explanatory factor in fertility transition theory. My analysis uses existing fertility theory to explain the education-fertility transition relationship, systematically tests that theory and suggests some modification to the theory on the basis of the Sri Lankan experience. The availability of relevant information in Sri Lanka has provided the opportunity to analyse the generations which contributed to the onset of the fertility transition and the continuance of that transition en_US
dc.title The first generation with mass schooling and the fertility transition: the case of Sri Lanka en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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