TAILIEUCHUNG - Schooling, transitions and reproductive citizenship for poor people in urban and rural north India: Preliminary results from Alwar and Dewas

In their classic account, Tim Dyson and Mick Moore linked women's autonomy to demographic regimes in south Asia. As they describe the north Indian demographic regime, it involves relatively high levels of fertility and infant mortality, relatively early age at marriage (which is almost universal in north India), and relatively large gender gaps in health indicators. They describe north Indian young women's very low autonomy, defining autonomy in general terms as ‘the capacity to manipulate one's personal environment the ability – technical, social, and psychological – to obtain information and to use it for making decisions about one's private. | 2008 Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty WP08 15 RECOUP Working Paper No. 15 Schooling transitions and reproductive citizenship for poor people in urban and rural north India Preliminary results from Alwar and Dewas Claire Noronha Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery with the RECOUP India Research Team1 Abstract Exactly how schooling affects young women s autonomy especially with respect to her fertility and the life-chances of her children is a contested issue. We draw on semi-structured interviews with young married women with at least one child under the age of six in urban and rural areas of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh north India to elaborate differences in attitudes and experiences in early married life between young married women with at least eight years of schooling and those with little or no formal schooling. All the women in our sample come from India s most disadvantaged social groups Scheduled or Other Backward Castes and live in disadvantaged communities. Tentative conclusions include that women with 10 years or more schooling have very different aspirations about their life partner and married life and are better able to negotiate relationships with their mother-in-law than do the women with little or no formal schooling experience. Keywords female autonomy fertility education India Acknowledgements An earlier version of this paper was presented at the UKFIET conference Going for Growth School Community Economy Nation 11 - 13 September 2007 Oxford. We are grateful for comments on earlier drafts of this paper from Sara Ruto Feyza Bhatti and Shailaja Fennell. This paper forms part of the Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty RECOUP . CORD is the Indian partner for RECOUP research. Neither DFID nor any of the partner institutions are responsible for any of the views expressed here. JEL Classification J13 I29 N35 Correspondence CORD G-18 1 Nizamuddin West New Delhi 110 013 India Tel 91 11 24356085. Email .

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