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A Study on Education Level and the Fertility Desire of Second Child——Based on CGSS2015 empirical test

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DOI: 10.23977/ICSSEM2020.046

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Bingyao Li

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Bingyao Li

ABSTRACT

Based on the CGSS (2015) data, this article explores the relationship between the level of education and the the fertility desire of second child from a microscopic perspective by constructing the Logit model. An empirical study found that there is a significant "U-shaped" curve relationship between education level and the fertility desire of second child. With the improvement of education level, fertility intention showed a trend of decreasing first and then rising, and the turning point was 10.77 years. The relationship between education level and fertility desire revealed by this research provides a decision-making reference for China ’s fertility policy and related economic and social policies, and it points out that under the new social conditions, people ’s fertility concept and fertility desire are given new connotation.

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Education level, fertility intention, new concept, population

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