of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data … Muslim women. The policy leads to a consistent drop in the probability of marriage and cumulative births for Muslim women …Increased education affects market and non-market outcomes. This paper investigates the causal impact of the extension …

Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … schools built following the extension of compulsory education in Mexico from 6th to 9th grade in 1993. We show that raising …

focusing on the role of education. Female CUA is found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women from the younger … representative household survey for two cohorts of married women, I examine female CUA incidence and correlates in Bangladesh … cohort being far more likely to have complete autonomy over contraceptive use than women from the older cohort. Detailed …

effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV … impact of years of schooling on BMI with one relying on a broader measure of education, i.e. individual standardized … cognitive tests, and show that the current focus in the literature on years of schooling as the measure of education is not …

Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, this paper exploits the Compulsory Education Law of China implemented … in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference … results are also partly explained by more educated women preferring quality to quantity of children, placing a greater value …

This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys … importance of distinguishing between extensive and intensive margin changes in both variables; consideration not only of women … of analysing changes across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over …

whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference … stronger at higher birth order and also reflects in differential spacing patterns. Women's education appears to be the … treatment effects) and a large set of model specifications, and find significant evidence supporting the role of early marriage …

education on women's family planning decisions. The key element of the reform was that it required students to complete eight … year and birth months. The reform led to an increase in total years of education, a delay in the age at first marriage, a …This paper exploits an education policy in India generated by a 2010 schooling reform to examine the effect of …

market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … participation. The probability to participate in the paid labour market shows an increasing trend with education levels higher than …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …, and to the marriage and enrollment decisions of their male siblings. Girls exposed to the garment sector delay marriage …