The 1995/1996 Household Income, Expenditure - (PDF, 101 mb ...

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The table above shows that, for both parents, spending on education
increases with their own education levels B educated parents value spending on
education based on their own experience. There may be a number of other
potentially associated factors contributing to spending on education, and the
reader is cautioned against inferring too much influence to education levels in
this very complex consumption relation.
vrLF Mothers' Education and Number of Children
A final question might be introduced at this stage: whether or not
higher educational attainment contributes to lower fertility. Because the
HIECS does not collect information on children "ever born," rather only on
surviving children, the conclusion cannot be definitive. Adding the number of
attempted births would probably be a monotonic increase of the number of
children in the household in the limit, however. I define children to be the
number of household members twelve years of age or less, and mothers to be
female household heads or spouses of household heads. The mean number of
children is 2.53. There is evidence that the higher the educational attainment
of the mother the fewer the number of children in the household:
Average Number of Children Given Mother's Attained Level of Education
Education Level of Mother (N) Mean Number of Children (Std
Dev)
Illiterate (5891) 2.72 (1.45)
Read, Write only (976) 2.28 (1.24)
Primary School (486) 2.37 (1.23)
Secondary Certificate (1226) 2.20 (0.98)
Post-Secondary Certificate (189) 2.13 (0.98)
University Certificate (445) . 1.99 (0.87)
Post-University (8) 1.50 (0.53)
8 At first glance it appears that, when per-student education spending
is classed by the education level of each parent separately, mothers spend
more than fathers at all education levels. But this argument is based on a
fallacy, an invalid assumption that attained education levels for both sexes are
comparable, when in fact education status of mothers is a separate scale from
that of fathers. The scales differ in both quantity and quality. There is
empirical support, also, for the contention that per-child expenditure on
"childrens' goods" (an index constructed by summing household expenditures
on powdered milk, childrens' clothing (underwear) and footwear, and
education) rises with the education level of the mother.