A flexible model for reconstructing education-specific fertility rates: The case of sub-Saharan Africa (by Dilek Yildiz)

Background: Accurate and harmonized estimates of education-specific fertility rates are crucial for understanding the past and projecting the future human population. Yet fertility estimates derived from demographic surveys that collect detailed fertility histories often do not align with the reliable and widely used United Nations (UN) World Population Prospects. This inconsistency means that the choice of data source can affect research outcomes on fertility trends. Objective: We combine the p