Health and fertility study
This study investigates explanations for the relationships between schooling and the health and fertility-related behaviour of poor households. It also examines questions relating to reproductive citizenship, women's agency and empowerment in poor communities. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, it examines
- whether the current orthodoxies about the strong positive relationships between a woman's schooling and her decision-making power are robust and, if so, it examines the pathways through which such effects operate;
- whether schooling 'works' through community or individual influences;
- whether there are threshold effects, and whether schooling effects on health and fertility are different for the poor than for the less poor;
- how teachers, officials, NGO workers and other educational stakeholders might develop better strategies to enhance pro-poor policies in local communities.
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Working Papers
Presentations
Theme 1: three linked projects on human and social outcomes of education, CAG meeting October 2008
Looking for success across Ghana's skilled youth population: implications for policy and education reform. UKFIET International Conference on Education and Development at Oxford, September 2009.
Conference papers
Jeffery, R., Jeffery, P. & Jeffery, C. (2007). School and madrasah education: the strategies of muslim young men in rural North India. Paper presented at UKFIET Conference on International Education and Development, 11-13 September 2007, Oxford.
Jeffery, R. (2008). The outcomes of education for health and fertility behaviour: Conceptual and methodological issues in cross-cultural research. Paper presented at the International Conference on Social and Human Development Outcomes of Education and Poverty, 12-14 November 2008, Nairobi, Kenya.
Jeffery, R., Colclough, C. & Singal. N. (2008). New approaches to cross-cultural research on education's outcomes amongst the poor: Reflections on RECOUP's methodology. Paper for BAICE Annual Conference, Glasgow.
Noronha, C., Jeffery, R., Jeffery, P. & the RECOUP India research team. (2008). Schooling, marriage and fertility for poor women in urban and rural North-India: Preliminary results from Anwar and Dewas. Paper presented at the Indian Association for Women's Studies conference, Lucknow, India.
Noronha, C., Jeffery, R. & Jeffery, P. with the RECOUP India research team (2007) Schooling, transitions and reproductive citizenship for poor people in urban and rural North India: Preliminary results from Alwar and Dewas. Paper presented at the RECOUP Symposium, 'Going for Growth' UKFIET Conference on International Education and Development, 11-13 September 2007, Oxford.
For more information, please email Roger Jeffery at R.Jeffery@ed.ac.uk