mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college … 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 …

"Kenya has long had a reputation of being politically risky, manifested in corruption, uncertainty about policies, and … the importance of political connections in doing business. Kenya began its economic liberalization in 1993. Reform picked …

paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two …