Secondary Schools and Teenage Childbearing : Evidence from the School Expansion in Brazilian Municipalities
This article investigates the effect increasing secondary education opportunities has on teenage fertility in Brazil. Using a novel dataset to exploit variation from a 57 increase in secondary schools across 4,884 Brazilian municipalities between 1...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/242591601910685920/Secondary-Schools-and-Teenage-Childbearing-Evidence-from-the-School-Expansion-in-Brazilian-Municipalities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34591 |
| Summary: | This article investigates the effect
increasing secondary education opportunities has on teenage
fertility in Brazil. Using a novel dataset to exploit
variation from a 57 increase in secondary schools across
4,884 Brazilian municipalities between 1997 and 2009, the
analysis shows an important role of secondary school
availability on underage fertility. 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. The results highlight the
important role of access to education leading to spillovers
beyond improving educational attainment. |
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