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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
	Why has fertility been increasing in Egypt?
	Goujon A; Al Zalak Z
发表日期	2018
出处	Population and Societies 551: 1-4.
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	After declining slowly to 3 children per woman on average in the mid-2000s, fertility in Egypt has risen back to 3.5 children in recent years. Women are marrying earlier and more frequently. They also bear their children at younger ages. Some argue that this reflects an increase in religiosity. The labour market difficulties of Egyptian women, the most educated especially, provide a more convincing explanation. Faced with a lack of job opportunities and a slack labour market, women may be deciding to marry and have children earlier than previous cohorts, though without wishing to have larger families. If this is the case, the number of births should fall when these women have reached their desired family size.
主题	World Population (POP)
关键词	Egypt, Arab countries, women, fertility, labour market, education, religion
URL	http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/15080/
来源智库	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/131214
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Goujon A,Al Zalak Z. Why has fertility been increasing in Egypt?. 2018.