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Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women’s Access to the Labor Market: Evidence from Ethiopia

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dc.contributor.authorChicoine, Luke
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-02T16:45:50Z
dc.date.available2024-01-02T16:45:50Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-03
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the causal relationship between women’s schooling and fertility by exploiting variation generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both geographic variation in the intensity of its impact and temporal variation generated by the timing of the implementation. The model finds that the removal of school fees led to an increase in schooling for Ethiopian women and that each additional year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in women’s ideal number of children.en
dc.identifier.citationThe World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/40810
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40810
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectFREE PRIMARY EDUCATION
dc.subjectRETURNS TO SCHOOLING
dc.subjectFERTILITY
dc.subjectETHIOPIA
dc.titleFree Primary Education, Fertility, and Women’s Access to the Labor Marketen
dc.title.subtitleEvidence from Ethiopiaen
dc.typeJournal Article
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.associatedcontenthttps://academic.oup.com/wber/article/35/2/480/5695305 Journal website (version of record)
okr.crossref.titleFree Primary Education, Fertility, and Women’s Access to the Labor Market: Evidence from Ethiopia
okr.date.disclosure2020-01-03
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.identifier.doidoi.org/10.1093/wber/lhz042
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/40810
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pagenumber480–498
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.administrativeAfrica Eastern and Southern (AFE)
okr.region.countryEthiopia
okr.topicGender::Gender and Education
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Employment and Shared Growth
okr.volume35 (2)
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