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The impact of education on fertility and child mortality Do fathers really matter less than mothers?
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Books/Printed Material |
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| Author | Breierova, Lucia Duflo, Esther |
| Spatial Coverage | Indonesia |
| Temporal Coverage | 2004 |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | "This paper takes advantage of a massive school construction program that took place in Indonesia between 1973 and 1978 to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school construction program generates instrumental variables for the average education in the household, and the difference in education between husband and wife. We show that female education is a stronger determinant of age at marriage and early fertility than male education. However, female and male education seem equally important factors in reducing child mortality. We suggest that the OLS estimate of the differential effect of women's and men's education may be biased by failure to take in to account assortative matching"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site. |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | National Bureau of Economic Research |
| Publisher Place | Cambridge, MA |
| Part of Series | Catalog |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | 20th Century Children Education Human Fertility History Indonesia Mortality Parents |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Fertility, Human--Indonesia--History--20th century |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Children--Mortality--Indonesia |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Parents--Education--Indonesia |
| Subject Domain (in LCC) | HB1 |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Book |
