Middle-Class Education
According to Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo (of the Poverty Action Laboratory), among the rural poor, fewer than half have children aged 13-18 in education, whereas among those living in cities and earning over $2 a day the figure is over three-quarters.
In emerging markets, among the very poorest (those living on less than $1 a day), the number of children in the household ranged from 1.8 to 3.6 per adult woman. In families that live on $6-10 per person, the average number of children per household was between 1 and 1.3 (these figures do not include China so they are not influenced by that country’s one-child policy).