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Appears in Collections: | Economics Working Papers |
Peer Review Status: | Unrefereed |
Title: | Compulsory Education and Teenage Motherhood |
Author(s): | Wilson, Tanya |
Contact Email: | tanya.wilson@stir.ac.uk |
Citation: | Wilson T (2017) Compulsory Education and Teenage Motherhood. Stirling Economics Discussion Paper, 2017-01. |
Keywords: | Compulsory Schooling Fertility Regression Discontinuity Design Teenage Motherhood |
JEL Code(s): | I21: Analysis of Education J13: Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth |
Issue Date: | 12-Jul-2017 |
Date Deposited: | 13-Jul-2017 |
Series/Report no.: | Stirling Economics Discussion Paper, 2017-01 |
Abstract: | Can education policy reduce the incidence of teenage motherhood? This paper uses data from the largest UK household-level survey to investigate the impact of a change in legislation, which increased the duration of compulsory schooling, on the timing of fertility using a regression discontinuity design. The findings indicate strong evidence that the schooling reform induced a downwards impact on fertility not only at the new school-leaving age, but also exerted a non-monotonic effect throughout the teenage years. Overall the analysis suggests that the increase in mandatory education caused a postponement of fertility with the influence of the reform dissipating after age 20. |
Type: | Working Paper |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25614 |
Affiliation: | Economics |
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