What women want: a study on conjugal power structures and the achievements of fertility preferences in the Philippines
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2012-01
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Conjugal power relations constitute much of the decision-making process of husbands and wives. Studies have shown that the balance of power between married couples depends on several factors, including how much income each of the individuals contribute to the total income of the household. This paper focuses on how reproductive decisions are made: who really gets the last say - the husband or the wife? Our research highlights the importance of the woman's educational attainment and employment because the two give her a chance to increase her bargaining power when making household decisions. Various relationships between the other independent variables (e.g. age, religion and location of residence) were shown to be insignificant after performing multinomial logit regressions.
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Conjugal power structures, balance of power, fertility preferences, education, employment, Multinomial Logistic Regression