World Population, Female Education, and Sustainable Development
VODCAST - 02 March 2011 Wolfgang Lutz
MEDIA
Professor Lutz explains the importance of female education in lowering fertility rates and child mortality in developing countries.
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Summary
IIASA demographer Wolfgang Lutz highlights the importance of female education in lowering fertility rates and child mortality in developing countries in a lecture on 2 March at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington, DC. The lecture, World Population, Female Education, and Sustainable Development, was sponsored by AAAS, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Austrian Embassy. Both IIASA and the US National Member Organization of IIASA are funded by the National Science Foundation.