The effect of female education on fertility and infant health
Subtitle: evidence from school entry policies using exact date of birth
By: Justin McCrary, Heather Royer
Contributors: Royer, Heather; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 12329; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 12329.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
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Description: "This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health.  We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the school entry date.  School entry policies affect female education and the quality of a woman's mate and have generally small, but possibly heterogeneous, effects on fertility and infant health.  We argue that school entry policies manipulate primarily the education of young women at risk of dropping out of school"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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