Heterogeneous Effects of Women’s Schooling on Fertility, Literacy and Work: Evidence from Burundi’s Free Primary Education Policy
- Title
- Heterogeneous Effects of Women’s Schooling on Fertility, Literacy and Work: Evidence from Burundi’s Free Primary Education Policy
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Child care
- Children
- Fertility
- Income distribution
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Youth
- Education
- Family planning
- Migration
- Economic development
- Female Education
- Human Development
- Education Policy
- Educational Influence
- Child Development
- Human Resources
- Abstract
- This article investigates the effect of women’s schooling on fertility as well as on associated mechanisms by leveraging Burundi’s free primary education policy (FPE) of 2005 as a natural experiment.
- Description
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Associated working paper: 2020_EduFer_working_paper.pdf;
Associated appendix: 20230509_EduFer_appendix.pdf;
Associated replication script: 20230509_EduFer_script.R;
Associated replication dataset: 20230509_EduFer_DHS_Figs_data.csv;
Associated replication dataset: 20230509_EduFer_MICS_DHS_Figs_data.csv;
Associated replication dataset: 20230509_EduFer_DHS_Regs_data.csv;
Associated presentation: 20230509_EduFer_presentation.pdf - 25 pages
- Created Date
- May 9, 2023
- Place of Origin
- Bayreuth
- Current Location
- Faculty of Law, Business & Economics, University of Bayreuth
- Author
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Wild, Frederik
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
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University of Bayreuth
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Stadelmann, David
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
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University of Bayreuth
- Center for Research in Economics, Management, and the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland (CREMA)
- Access Rights
- No Raw Data
- DRE ID
- acn-99-0010
- Identifier
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20230509_EduFer_article
Value Annotations
- Type
- Locally defined identifier
- Bibliographic Citation
- Wild, F., & Stadelmann, D. (2023). Heterogeneous Effects of Women's Schooling on Fertility, Literacy and Work: Evidence from Burundi's Free Primary Education Policy. Journal of African Economies, ejad002. https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejad002
- Extent
- 972 kilobytes
- WissKI URL
- 58445
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