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The Changing Significance of Education for Fertility Inequality in Cameroon (1991-2011)

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dc.contributor.authorAli, Omar M.
dc.contributor.chairEloundou-Enyegue, Parfait M.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHirschl, Thomas A.
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-26T14:17:22Z
dc.date.available2018-04-26T14:17:22Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-30
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the changing significance of education for fertility inequality in Cameroon. It uses data from demographic and health surveys from 1991 to 2011 and a mix of linear regression and decomposition analysis to identify the factors contributing most strongly to the changes in inequalities in Cameroon, with a specific focus on the contribution of composition and behavioral effects. The findings show a rise in fertility inequality during the study period, with an increasing concentration of births among women of lower levels of schooling. The results from the decomposition analysis suggest that the main driver of this growing inequality is behavioral differentiation. Importantly, the study highlights both the quantitative and the qualitative effects of education (the magnitude and the pathways through which it contributes to inequality). Quantitatively, the contribution of education to reproductive inequalities increases overtime. Qualitatively, the contribution shifts from mainly behavioral effect to predominantly compositional mechanisms. The study concludes by a discussion of the implications of this rising fertility inequality on prospects of demographic dividend in Cameroon.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7298/X4FB513D
dc.identifier.otherAli_cornell_0058O_10187
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/cornell:10187
dc.identifier.otherbibid: 10361587
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/56910
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectCameroon
dc.subjectSociology
dc.subjectDemography
dc.subjectDemographic dividend
dc.subjectFertility Inequality
dc.titleThe Changing Significance of Education for Fertility Inequality in Cameroon (1991-2011)
dc.typedissertation or thesis
dcterms.licensehttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/59810
thesis.degree.disciplineDevelopment Sociology
thesis.degree.grantorCornell University
thesis.degree.levelMaster of Science
thesis.degree.nameM.S., Development Sociology

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