On the Identification of Tertiary Education Expansion Effect on Fertility
We draw attention to two identification issues with previous studies estimating the causal effect of college education on fertility: (i) the mis-categorization of women past the usual college-entry age as “unexposed” to the expansion, and (ii) a possible violation of the exclusion restriction when using the expansion as an instrument for female education. We exploit the tertiary education expansion in Taiwan, with a novel focus on women past the college-entry age, to show that it also lowered the fertility of more mature women, with and without tertiary education, suggesting that the effect did not operate through education alone
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2022
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Authors: | Bharati, Tushar ; Chang, Simon ; Li, Qing |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
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