Alzúa, María Laura; Velázquez, Cecilia - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 7, pp. 1-28
This is the first study exploring the causal effect of education on teenage fertility in Argentina. We exploit an … exogenous variation in education from the staggered implementation of the 1993 reform, which increased compulsory schooling from … 7 to 10 years. We find a negative overall impact of education on teenage fertility rates, which operates through two …