<p><strong>Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2010 (Volume 8) </strong></p><p>Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna </p><p><strong>Special issue on </strong><br><strong>“Education and demography” </strong></p><p>Guest editors: <br>Bilal Barakat and Hans-Peter Blossfeld </p><p><strong>Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2010 (Volume 8) </strong></p><p>All articles in this publication, except the Introduction and Demographic <br>Debate contributions, were subject to international peer review </p><p><a href="/goto?url=http://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/yearbook/" target="_blank">Internet address: www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/yearbook/ </a></p><p><strong>Editorial board Guest Editors for this issue: </strong></p><p>Bilal Barakat and Hans-Peter Blossfeld </p><p><strong>Editor: </strong></p><p>Wolfgang Lutz </p><p><strong>Managing editor: </strong></p><p>Tomáš Sobotka </p><p><strong>Associate editors: </strong></p><p>Thomas Fent, Richard Gisser, Dimiter Philipov, Alexia Prskawetz and Sergei Scherbov </p><p>Vienna Institute of Demography Austrian Academy of Sciences Wohllebengasse 12-14 1040 Vienna, Austria Fax: (+43 1) 515 81-7730 </p><p>e-mail: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank"><em>[email protected] </em></a>Website: <a href="/goto?url=http://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/yearbook/" target="_blank"><em>www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/yearbook/ </em></a></p><p><strong>Publisher </strong><br><strong>Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften </strong></p><p>Postfach 471, Postgasse 7 1011 Vienna, Austria Tel. (+43 1) 515 81-3401-3406 Fax (+43 1) 515 81-400 </p><p>e-mail: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank"><em>[email protected] </em></a>Website: <em>verlag.oeaw.ac.at </em></p><p><strong>Cover design: </strong>Christian Högl </p><p><strong>Copy editing: </strong>Werner Richter, Heike Barakat and Margaret Hutchings </p><p><strong>Editorial assistants: </strong>Binita K.C. and Ani Minassian <strong>ISSN </strong>1728-4414 <strong>ISBN </strong>978-3-7001-6967-3 </p><p><strong>Authors for this volume </strong></p><p>Christos Bagavos, Department of Social Policy, Panteion University, Athens, <br>Greece. </p><p>Bilal Barakat, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, <br>Vienna, and World Population Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. </p><p>Alaka Malwade Basu, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell <br>University, Ithaca, United States. </p><p>Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Institute of Longitudinal Studies in Education (INBIL), <br>University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany. </p><p>John Bongaarts, Population Council, New York, United States. David De Wachter, Interface Demography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, <br>Belgium. </p><p>Priska Flandorfer, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of <br>Sciences, Vienna, Austria. </p><p>Katrin Fliegenschnee, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of <br>Sciences, Vienna, Austria. </p><p>Regina Fuchs, World Population Program, International Institute for Applied <br>Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. </p><p>Harvey J. Graff, Department of English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, <br>Ohio, United States. </p><p>Raquel Rangel de Meireles Guimarães, CEDEPLAR-Center for Regional <br>Development and Planning of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil. </p><p>Samir KC, World Population Program, International Institute for Applied Systems <br>Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. </p><p>Johannes Klotz, Population Statistics, Analysis and Projections, Statistics Austria, <br>Vienna, Austria. </p><p>Harold Lentzner, World Population Program, International Institute for Applied <br>Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. </p><p>Wolfgang Lutz, World Population Program, International Institute for Applied <br>Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria; Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria. </p><p>Karel Neels, Sociology department, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium. Elsie Pamuk, World Population Program, International Institute for Applied <br>Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. </p><p>Eduardo Luiz Gonçalves Rios-Neto, Demography Department and CEDEPLAR- <br>Center for Regional Development and Planning of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil. </p><p>Joanna Różańska-Putek, Interface Demography research group, Vrije Universiteit <br>Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium. </p><p>Martin Spielauer, Modelling Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Canada. Jan Van Bavel, Interface Demography research group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel <br>(VUB), Brussels, Belgium. </p><p><strong>Contents </strong></p><p><strong>Introduction </strong></p><p><strong>The search for a demography of education: some thoughts </strong>.............................1 </p><p>Bilal Barakat and Hans-Peter Blossfeld </p><p><strong>Demographic Debate </strong></p><p><strong>Education will be at the heart of 21st century demography </strong>............................. 9 </p><p>Wolfgang Lutz </p><p><strong>The Literacy Myth: literacy, education and demography </strong>..............................17 </p><p>Harvey J. Graff </p><p><strong>Mass schooling, empowerment, and demographic and economic outcomes: </strong></p><p><strong>a note of dissent</strong>...................................................................................................25 Alaka Malwade Basu </p><p><strong>Refereed Articles </strong></p><p><strong>The causes of educational differences in fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa</strong>......31 </p><p>John Bongaarts </p><p><strong>Education and childlessness: the relationship between educational field, educational level, employment and childlessness among Greek women born </strong></p><p><strong>in 1955-1959</strong>.........................................................................................................51 Christos Bagavos </p><p><strong>Postponement and recuperation of Belgian fertility: how are they related to </strong></p><p><strong>rising female educational attainment? </strong>..............................................................77 Karel Neels and David De Wachter </p><p><strong>Second birth rates across Europe: interactions between women’s level of </strong></p><p><strong>education and child care enrolment </strong>................................................................ 107 Jan Van Bavel and Joanna Różańska-Putek </p><p><strong>Convergence or divergence of educational disparities in mortality and morbidity? The evolution of life expectancy and health expectancy by educational attainment in Austria in 1981-2006 </strong>............................................ 139 </p><p>Johannes Klotz </p><p><strong>Education or wealth: which matters more for reducing child mortality in </strong></p><p><strong>developing countries? </strong>....................................................................................... 175 Regina Fuchs, Elsie Pamuk, and Wolfgang Lutz </p><p><strong>The effect of education on adult mortality and disability: </strong></p><p><strong>a global perspective</strong>........................................................................................... 201 Samir KC and Harold Lentzner </p><p><strong>Education and health: theoretical considerations based on a qualitative </strong></p><p><strong>grounded theory</strong>................................................................................................ 237 Priska Flandorfer and Katrin Fliegenschnee </p><p><strong>Persistence and change of the relative difference in educational attainment by ethno-cultural group and gender in Canada</strong>............................................. 261 </p><p>Martin Spielauer </p><p><strong>The demography of education in Brazil: inequality of educational opportunities based on Grade Progression Probability (1986-2008)</strong>............ 283 </p><p>Eduardo Luiz Gonçalves Rios-Neto and Raquel Rangel de Meireles Guimarães </p>