| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 251, 2021
2021 International Conference on Tourism, Economy and Environmental Sustainability (TEES 2021)
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| Article Number | 01088 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Analysis of Energy Industry Economy and Consumption Structure Model | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202125101088 | |
| Published online | 15 April 2021 | |
An Analysis on Female Education Level, Income and Fertility Rate in China
1 Department of Economics and Management, Shantou Polytechnic, Shantou 515000, Guangdong, China
2 Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution and Health, School of Environment, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, Guangdong, China
a* Corresponding author: jfsong@stpt.edu.cn
b Corresponding author: kuangyaoqiu@jnu.edu.cn
The present population economic theories are all established at a hypothesis: parents are fully rational in decisions at every birth. The hypothesis is actually contradicted with the reality. This paper attempts to explain the fertility behavior of persons with different cultural degrees and income levels without the fully rational hypothesis. The paper puts forward a hypothesis that fertility rate has negative correlation with cultural degree, and proves it through two routes. One is higher cultural degree means longer education duration, which must occupy female reproductive period. The other route is that persons who get higher cultural degree are generally more rational, therefore less accidental pregnancy and childbearing occur.
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