The Impacts Of Womens Education On Elements Of Reproductive Health And Governance

The driving argument for conducting this study has come out of the belief that there arernmultifaceted benefits to investments in education other than the conventional privaternreturns calculation earning differentials. among a wide range of variables thatrneducation can presumably exert effects upon, two elements of reproductive healthrnand one element of governance were considered in this study. More specifically thisrnstudy has committed itself to the investigation of the impacts of education on fertility,rncontraceptive use and political participation of women. by making use of a primaryrndata from a survey on 1002 women of reproductive age living in urban sides of AddisrnAbaba and debre berhan estimations were made. the results show that generallyrneducation reduced fertility, raised contraception and positively contributed to thernpolitical participation of women. It was also proved that as opposed to thernconventional wisdom that primary education is enough to exert such influences onrntrnfettility and contraception, the findings showed at least a completion of grade eightrnschooling was required. /I was also found out that it was women's education and notrnhusband's education that resulted in significant effects on all the three variables.rnLastly, most of education's impact especially on fertility came about through therndelaying of age at marriage.

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