"Completing additional years of education necessarily entails spending more time in school. There is naturally a rather … 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 …

"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 …

"The authors report results from a randomized evaluation of a merit scholarship program for adolescent girls in Kenya …. Girls who scored well on academic exams received a cash grant and had school fees paid. Girls eligible for the scholarship … showed sizable average test gains. Both student and teacher school attendance increased in the program schools. "--World Bank …

Bolivia, Kenya, and South Africa suggest that multivariate estimates of behavioral relations may not be biased because of high …