Ferre, Celine2012-03-192012-03-192009-02-01https://hdl.handle.net/10986/4029Completing additional years of education necessarily entails spending more time in school. There is naturally a rather mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college, thus delaying the beginning of and shortening their reproductive life. This paper uses data from the Kenyan Demographic and Health Surveys of 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2003 to uncover the impact of staying one more year in school on teenage fertility. To get around the endogeneity issue between schooling and fertility preferences, the analysis uses the 1985 Kenyan education reform as an instrument for years of education. The authors find that adding one more year of education decreases by at least 10 percentage points the probability of giving birth when still a teenager. The probability of having one's first child before age 20, when having at least completed primary education, is about 65 percent; therefore, for this means a reduction of about 15 percent in teenage fertility rates for this group. One additional year of school curbs the probability of becoming a mother each year by 7.3 percent for women who have completed at least primary education, and 5.6 percent for women with at least a secondary degree. These results (robust to a wide array of specifications) are of crucial interest to policy and decision makers who set up health and educational policies. This paper shows that investing in education can have positive spillovers on health.CC BY 3.0 IGOADOLESCENCEADOLESCENTADOLESCENT CHILDBEARINGADOLESCENT FERTILITYADOLESCENT GIRLSADOLESCENT HEALTHADOLESCENT MOTHERADOLESCENT MOTHERSADOLESCENT PREGNANCYADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIORADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICYADOLESCENT SEXUALITYADOLESCENTSADULTHOODAGE AT MARRIAGEAGE AT MENARCHEAGE OF MARRIAGEAGEDAUTONOMY OF WOMENAVERAGE AGEBIRTH COHORTBIRTH WEIGHTSBIRTHSCHILD BEARINGCHILD BY AGECHILD CARECHILD HEALTHCHILD HEALTH CARECHILD MORBIDITYCHILD MORTALITYCHILD SURVIVALCHILDBEARINGCHILDBIRTHCLASSROOMCLINICSCOMPLETION RATESCOMPLICATIONSCOMPULSORY SCHOOLINGCONTRACEPTIONCONTRACEPTIVE METHODSCONTRACEPTIVE USECONTROL OVER RESOURCESCOUNTRIES WITH HIGH FERTILITY RATESCULTURAL CHANGEDECISION MAKINGDEMOGRAPHIC CHANGESDEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITIONDEVELOPING COUNTRIESDROPOUTEARLY CHILDBEARINGEARLY MARRIAGEEARLY PREGNANCIESEARLY PREGNANCYECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMIC STATUSEDUCATED WOMENEDUCATION OF WOMENEDUCATION REFORMEDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTEDUCATIONAL EXPENDITURESEDUCATIONAL LEVELSEDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIESEDUCATIONAL OUTCOMESEDUCATIONAL POLICIESENROLLMENTENROLLMENT RATESETHNIC GROUPETHNIC GROUPSEXCESS FERTILITYEXTENDED FAMILYFACT SHEETFAMILY INCOMEFAMILY PLANNINGFAMILY PLANNING PERSPECTIVESFAMILY SIZEFAMILY TIESFEMALE EDUCATIONFEMALE STUDENTSFERTILITYFERTILITY BEHAVIORFERTILITY LEVELSFERTILITY PATTERNSFERTILITY PREFERENCESFERTILITY RATESFERTILITY REGULATIONFERTILITY TRENDSFIRST BIRTHFIRST CHILDFIRST PREGNANCYFIRST SEXFIRST SEXUAL INTERCOURSEGIRLS IN SCHOOLHEALTH CAREHEALTH CONSEQUENCESHEALTH OUTCOMESHEALTH PROBLEMSHEALTH RISKSHIGH SCHOOLHOUSEHOLD SURVEYSHUMAN CAPITALHUMAN DEVELOPMENTIDEAL NUMBER OF CHILDRENIMPACT OF EDUCATIONIMPACT ON FERTILITYINFANTINFANT FEEDINGINFANT HEALTHINTERVENTIONINTERVENTIONSKIDSKINDERGARTENKINSHIPLARGE FAMILIESLARGER FAMILIESLEVEL OF EDUCATIONLEVEL OF FERTILITYLEVELS OF EDUCATIONLEVELS OF FERTILITYLITERACYMASS MEDIAMATERNAL EDUCATIONMATERNAL MORTALITYMINISTRY OF EDUCATIONMINISTRY OF HEALTHMORTALITYMORTALITY RISKSMOTHERNATIONAL COUNCILNATIONAL LAWSNATIONAL LEVELNUMBER OF CHILDRENNUMBER OF WOMENNUTRITIONOBSTETRIC CAREOBSTETRIC FISTULAOLD SYSTEMOLDER MOTHERSOLDER STUDENTSPHARMACIESPHYSICAL MATURITYPLACE OF RESIDENCEPOLICY LEVERPOLICY MAKERSPOLICY RESEARCHPOLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPERPOOR ADOLESCENT MOTHERSPOPULATION AND DEVELOPMENTPOPULATION BULLETINPOPULATION REFERENCE BUREAUPOPULATION STUDIESPREGNANCIES OF WOMENPREGNANCY RATESPREGNANCY-RELATED DEATHSPREGNANT STUDENTSPREGNANT TEENAGERSPREMATURE BIRTHPRIMARY EDUCATIONPRIMARY SCHOOLPRIMARY SCHOOL GRADUATESPRIMARY SCHOOLINGPRIOR TO MARRIAGEPROGRESSRADIOREPRODUCTIVE AGEREPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIORREPRODUCTIVE HEALTHREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INDICATORSREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICYREPRODUCTIVE LIFERESULT OF PREGNANCYRISK OF DEATHRISK OF EXPOSURERISK OF PREGNANCYRURAL AREASSAFE MOTHERHOODSCHOOL CONSTRUCTIONSCHOOL CURRICULUMSECONDARY DEGREESECONDARY EDUCATIONSECONDARY SCHOOLSECONDARY SCHOOLINGSECONDARY SCHOOLSSELF-RELIANCESEXSEXUAL INTERCOURSESIBLINGSSINGLE CHILDSIZE OF FAMILIESSOCIAL CONTROLSOCIAL SCIENCESSOCIAL STATUSSOCIALIZATIONSPILLOVERSPOUSESSTATUS OF WOMENTEACHINGTEENTEEN PREGNANCIESTEEN PREGNANCYTEEN YEARSTEENAGE CHILDBEARINGTEENAGE FERTILITYTEENAGE MOTHERSTEENAGE PREGNANCIESTEENAGE PREGNANCYTEENAGE WOMENTEENAGERTEENAGERSTEENSURBAN AREASVACCINATIONWOMANYOUNG AGEYOUNG MATERNAL AGEYOUNG MOTHERSYOUNG PEOPLEYOUNG WOMANYOUNG WOMENWorld Bank10.1596/1813-9450-4833