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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

cluster average of women's exposure to family planning messages via radio, we find that if the decision to use contraceptives …Contraception is a crucial tool that empowers women to control their bodily autonomy. Concurrently, violence against … women remains a pressing public-health issue depleting women's autonomy. We establish a causal link between the decision to …

presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …

received less attention is education quality. If technological change that reduces the reliance of production on emissions is … elastic skill supply through better education quality may mitigate adverse economic outcomes, including wage inequality, and … reliance on emissions for production. Having higher quality education-defined as the level of cognitive skills attained by …