| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21594 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21594 |
| Does Education Reduce Teen Fertility? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws | |
| Philip DeCicca; Harry Krashinsky | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-09-28 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | While less-educated women are more likely to give birth as teenagers, there is scant evidence the relationship is causal. We investigate this possibility using variation in compulsory schooling laws (CSLs) to identify the impact of formal education on teen fertility for a large sample of women drawn from multiple waves of the Canadian Census. We find that greater CSL-induced schooling reduces the probability of giving birth as a teenager by roughly two to three percentage points. We find evidence that education affects the timing of births in a way that strongly implies an “incarceration” effect of education. In particular, we find large negative impacts of education on births to young women aged seventeen and eighteen, but little evidence of an effect after these ages, consistent with the idea that being enrolled in school deters fertility in a contemporaneous manner. Our findings are robust to the inclusion of several province-level characteristics including multiple dimensions of school quality, expenditures on public programs and region-specific time trends. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21594 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579269 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Philip DeCicca,Harry Krashinsky. Does Education Reduce Teen Fertility? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws. 2015. |
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