Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia

This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both geog...

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Main Author:	Chicoine, Luke
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	PRIMARY EDUCATION RETURNS TO EDUCATION FERTILITY DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/463371578408927261/Free-Primary-Education-Fertility-and-Womens-Access-to-the-Labor-Market-Evidence-from-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33154

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spelling	okr-10986-331542022-09-20T00:13:14Z Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia Chicoine, Luke PRIMARY EDUCATION RETURNS TO EDUCATION FERTILITY DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both geographic variation in the intensity of its impact and temporal variation generated by the timing of the implementation. The model finds that the removal of school fees led to an increase in schooling for Ethiopian women and that each additional year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in women's ideal number of children. 2020-01-09T18:01:12Z 2020-01-09T18:01:12Z 2020-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/463371578408927261/Free-Primary-Education-Fertility-and-Womens-Access-to-the-Labor-Market-Evidence-from-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33154 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9105 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Ethiopia
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spellingShingle	PRIMARY EDUCATION RETURNS TO EDUCATION FERTILITY DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET Chicoine, Luke Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia
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description	This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both geographic variation in the intensity of its impact and temporal variation generated by the timing of the implementation. The model finds that the removal of school fees led to an increase in schooling for Ethiopian women and that each additional year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in women's ideal number of children.
format	Working Paper
author	Chicoine, Luke
author_facet	Chicoine, Luke
author_sort	Chicoine, Luke
title	Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia
title_short	Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia
title_full	Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia
title_fullStr	Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed	Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia
title_sort	free primary education, fertility, and women's access to the labor market : evidence from ethiopia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/463371578408927261/Free-Primary-Education-Fertility-and-Womens-Access-to-the-Labor-Market-Evidence-from-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33154
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Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia

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