Open AccessAge of Marriage and Fertility: A Policy Review
Author(s) -
Dennis N. De Tray
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v16i1pp.89-100
Subject(s) - fertility , total fertility rate , social policy , demographic economics , population , developed country , birth rate , demography , developing country , economics , population growth , development economics , family planning , economic growth , sociology , research methodology , market economy
The average age at which women marry and the number ofchildren they produce tend to be negatively correlated. This negativerelationship has received a good deal of attention from socialscientists over the past several decades, and it has on occasion beensuggested that if governments could find a way to raise the average ageof marriage, the result would be a significant reduction in completedfertility.1 Since reduction of population growth rates is an explicitpolicy of many developing nations, particularly Pakistan, it seems worthtaking a closer look at age of marriage as a policy tool.