Effect of education on age at marriage and fertility in Bangladesh

Education is one of the important social variable that has drawn considerable attention from researchers engaged in the study of fertility differentials. It is an achieved status of an individual which does not change over time like some other variables and is expected to give individuals an alternative source of new normative orientations as opposed to traditional ones. Women engaged in such activity contribute in raising age at marriage and thereby affect fertility to reduce. This paper investigate the effect of women's education on age at marriage of the females and as well as on fertility.