Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to … donors should adopt a rights-based approach to adolescent fertility and shift their focus from the proximate to distal causes … differential impacts of adolescent fertility in different contexts, and 3) investigating other the impact of adolescent fertility …

learning and aspirations for higher education fell during the covid-19 pandemic, particularly for girls. The randomized Growth …

initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

of adopting comparable worth to alleviate race- as well as gender-based wage discrimination. First we report the negative … find that implementing comparable worth would appreciably narrow the race- and gender-based wage gaps and significantly …

formation and potentially affecting marriage and fertility outcomes. I study the implications of the female advantage in … education on family formation through changes in the marriage market. My empirical strategy exploits the gradual implementation … of a large school reform in Finland that increased women's relative level of education. I analyze the reduced …

fertility outcomes in Indonesia. Using panel data and a sibling fixed effects model, we identify this relationship based on … completed education and the likelihood of completing secondary schooling. The effect on surviving brothers is more muted. A … potential channel for this result is that women respond by changing their fertility behavior. While surviving the death of a …

This is the first study exploring the causal effect of education on teenage fertility in Argentina. We exploit an … 7 to 10 years. We find a negative overall impact of education on teenage fertility rates, which operates through two … exogenous variation in education from the staggered implementation of the 1993 reform, which increased compulsory schooling from …

This paper shows that differences in fertility across European countries mainly emerge in the transition from the first …-SILC) for estimating a woman's probability of having a second child as a function of education. …