Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … extends beyond improved labour market outcomes and includes greater autonomy over their fertility. …

Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … extends beyond improved labor market outcomes and includes greater autonomy over their fertility …

Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … extends beyond improved labor market outcomes and includes greater autonomy over their fertility …

situated at all wealth levels, the relevant downstream effects of schooling - measured by fertility, literacy and employment … reduced fertility through policy induced education, while there are almost no effects of additional education for non …-poor women. Our findings help in evaluating the generalisability of the nexus between women's education and fertility as well as …

unwanted. If sexuality education were to begin before puberty, at age 9-10 and in primary school, then many more girls would be … adolescent girls in KwaZulu Natal. Of a sample of 796 girls, almost half had already had first sexual intercourse at a mean age …. About half of the girls had ever been pregnant and a large percentage of these indicated that the pregnancy had been …

The paper develops and estimates a dynamic structural model that allows for the interrelations between girls' schooling …. The model incorporates home production, which is critical for understanding the behavior of mothers when deciding girls …' schooling. Results suggest that monetary incentives are a good mechanism to increase girls' school enrollment, but not the most …