Koppenstiener, M.F. and Matheson, J. (2021) Secondary schools and teenage childbearing : evidence from the school expansion in Brazilian municipalities. The World Bank Economic Review, 35 (4). pp. 1019-1037. ISSN 0258-6770
Abstract
This article investigates the effect of increasing secondary education opportunities on teenage fertility in Brazil. We construct a novel dataset to exploit variation from a 57% increase in secondary schools across 4,884 Brazilian municipalities between 1997 and 2009. We find that an increase of one school per 100 females reduces a cohort’s teenage birthrate by between 0.250 and 0.563 births per 100, or a reduction of one birth for roughly every 50 to 100 students who enroll in secondary education.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in World Bank Economic Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Secondary education; teenage childbearing; Brazil |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2020 10:05 |
Last Modified: | 11 May 2022 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/wber/lhaa022 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:165093 |