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The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth / Justin McCrary, Heather Royer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCrary, Justin.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12329.
- NBER working paper series no. w12329
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.
- Summary:
- This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the school entry date. School entry policies affect female education and the quality of a woman's mate and have generally small, but possibly heterogeneous, effects on fertility and infant health. We argue that school entry policies manipulate primarily the education of young women at risk of dropping out of school.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2006.
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