Schooling, Information and Nonmarket Productivity: Contraceptive Use and Its Effectiveness
利用美国两次生育调查数据，研究教育如何影响家庭部门的生产力，发现受教育程度更高的夫妇更了解避孕方法、使用更有效，并能更好地克服生理限制对生育的影响。
Information from two U.S. fertility surveys on couples knowledge about and use of specific contraceptives are used to estimate the technology of human reproduction in order to examine the association between schooling and productivity in the household sector. The results indicate that more schooled couples have a wider knowledge of contraceptive methods use more efficiently those contraceptive methods for which there is little information and large scope for misuse and are better able to mitigate the effects of their biological constraints (fecundity) on their fertility compared to less schooled couples. (EXCERPT)