Work and Fertility Linkage in Women: A Study in Bhubaneswar City

The present paper investigates the causal links between income, education, age at marriage and work hours with fertility in the city of Bhubaneswar. Data for the present study was collected through personal interviews from two samples of 70 working women each. The analysis revealed that fertility of working women was explained by own income, family income, education of the respondents, hours of work and age at marriage. Results also revealed that education of the respondents, age at marriage and income had negative relation with the fertility of working women whereas work hours was found to have a positive relation