Kirdar, Murat; Dayioglu, Meltem; Koc, Ismet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years—which increased the 8th grade completion rate for women by 30 percentage points—on marriage and birth outcomes of teenage women in Turkey. We find that increased compulsory schooling years...