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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-in-differences methods. The results show that an additional...
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matriculation exam each year than men, and this has been the case since 1978. We demonstrate how girls gradually manage (on average … encourage girls to excel. …
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eliciting probabilities. Parents perceive a significant marriage-market return to girls' education and this drives much of their …
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are particularly large. Interventions often target adolescent girls with the aim of empowering them to make choices that … expose girls, who are often marginalized within their communities, to new risks if it encourages them to violate prevailing … gender norms. In this study, we design an experiment to compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an …
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