Dinçer, Mehmet Alper; Kaushal, Neeraj; Grossman, Michael - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 243-258
We use Turkey’s 1997 Education Law that increased compulsory schooling from 5 to 8years to study the effect of education on women’s fertility and empowerment. Using an instrumental variables methodology, we find that a 10 percentage-point increase in the proportion of ever-married women with...