| Summary: | In this paper, I aim to explore the mechanisms mediating the relationship between education and
current contraceptive use in effort to stress the importance of women’s education in reducing
fertility. I hypothesize that there are mainly three mechanisms through which women’s education
influence contraceptive use: women’s employment, exposure to family planning messages in the
mass media and husband’s education. Pakistan is the unit of analysis in this paper. To test the
hypothesis, I conduct logistic regression to analyze the data of 9,556 currently married women
that was collected in the Pakistan Demographic and Health survey (PDHS) 2006-07. Results
show that women’s education, exposure to family planning messages in the mass media and
having husbands with higher education significantly predict current contraceptive use among
women, but not women’s employment and having husbands with primary and secondary
education
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