The effect of education on teenage fertility: causal evidence for Argentina

Autores
Alzúa, María Laura; Velázquez Battistessa, Cecilia
Año de publicación
2017
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inglés
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This is the first study exploring the causal effect of education on teenage fertility in Argentina. We exploit an exogenous variation in education from the staggered implementation of the 1993 reform, which increased compulsory schooling from 7 to 10 years. We find a negative overall impact of education on teenage fertility rates, which operates through two complementing channels: a human capital effect (one additional year of schooling causes a decline of 30 births per 1000 girls) and a weaker ‘incapacitation’ effect (a rise of one percentage point in enrollment rate reduces 3 births per 1000 girls).
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
Materia
Economía
Teenage fertility
Education
Instrumental variables
Compulsory schooling laws
Latin America and the Caribbean
Argentina
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The effect of education on teenage fertility: causal evidence for Argentina
title The effect of education on teenage fertility: causal evidence for Argentina
spellingShingle The effect of education on teenage fertility: causal evidence for Argentina
Alzúa, María Laura
Economía
Teenage fertility
Education
Instrumental variables
Compulsory schooling laws
Latin America and the Caribbean
Argentina
title_short The effect of education on teenage fertility: causal evidence for Argentina
title_full The effect of education on teenage fertility: causal evidence for Argentina
title_fullStr The effect of education on teenage fertility: causal evidence for Argentina
title_full_unstemmed The effect of education on teenage fertility: causal evidence for Argentina
title_sort The effect of education on teenage fertility: causal evidence for Argentina
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Alzúa, María Laura
Velázquez Battistessa, Cecilia
author Alzúa, María Laura
author_facet Alzúa, María Laura
Velázquez Battistessa, Cecilia
author_role author
author2 Velázquez Battistessa, Cecilia
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Economía
Teenage fertility
Education
Instrumental variables
Compulsory schooling laws
Latin America and the Caribbean
Argentina
topic Economía
Teenage fertility
Education
Instrumental variables
Compulsory schooling laws
Latin America and the Caribbean
Argentina
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This is the first study exploring the causal effect of education on teenage fertility in Argentina. We exploit an exogenous variation in education from the staggered implementation of the 1993 reform, which increased compulsory schooling from 7 to 10 years. We find a negative overall impact of education on teenage fertility rates, which operates through two complementing channels: a human capital effect (one additional year of schooling causes a decline of 30 births per 1000 girls) and a weaker ‘incapacitation’ effect (a rise of one percentage point in enrollment rate reduces 3 births per 1000 girls).
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
description This is the first study exploring the causal effect of education on teenage fertility in Argentina. We exploit an exogenous variation in education from the staggered implementation of the 1993 reform, which increased compulsory schooling from 7 to 10 years. We find a negative overall impact of education on teenage fertility rates, which operates through two complementing channels: a human capital effect (one additional year of schooling causes a decline of 30 births per 1000 girls) and a weaker ‘incapacitation’ effect (a rise of one percentage point in enrollment rate reduces 3 births per 1000 girls).
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