Last modified: 2017-12-22
Abstract
There are many studies to explore the relationship between education and fertility. However, most of them focus on education of women or men only. And only a few studies to examined education as a couple perspectives, and it usually happened in developed countries. Yet in Indonesia, as a developing country, not many studies use this approach. This study aims to investigate whether couples' educational level influenced fertility behavior in Indonesia. Besides that, it is considered to include socioeconomic characteristics of a couple as control variables. Using data from Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS), this study investigates married couples in 2014, and uses Hurdle Zero-Truncated Poisson regression model to estimate the predictors. The result shows that in Indonesia couples' educational level influence their fertility behavior. Regarding inequality on the couples’ joint educational level, the hypergamy tend to be childless.