Dr. Margaret Frye, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan,
Title of Talk: The increasing educational differentiation of African birth timing
Dr. Frye will present research from a series of studies investigating how educational differentials in family formation behavior vary across Africa's educational expansion, which has encompassed an enormous breadth of educational opportunities over the past 50 years. Beyond being an attribute of individual; women, education is also an aggregate phenomenon: the social meaning of a woman's educational attainment hinges on the availability of educational opportunities during her youth. Using data representing 47 birth years and 32 sub-Saharan African countries, this work examines the impact of educational context on women's marital timing, marital sorting, and birth timing.
