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Age of Marriage and Fertility: A Policy Review

Author(s) -

Dennis N. De Tray

Publication year - 1977

Publication title -

the 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.

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