Figure 2.

Community-level education is associated with a reduction in (a) mean (±s.e.) and (b) variance (given as s.d.) in fertility, independent of individual differentials and of controls for between-community variation (n = 1972). However, there is no clear relationship between (c) variance (given as s.d.) in fertility and variance (given as s.d.) in education. In (a) and (b), each interval on the x-axis corresponds to 1 s.d. in average education. All panels show model-adjusted relationships.