Adamecz-Völgyi, A;
Scharle, Á;
(2020)
Books or babies? The incapacitation effect of schooling on minority women.
Journal of Population Economics
10.1007/s00148-020-00771-9.
(In press).
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Abstract
This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority in Hungary. We use a regression discontinuity design identification strategy and show that the reform decreased the probability of teenage motherhood among Roma women by 13.4–26.0% and delayed motherhood by 2 years. We separate the incapacitation and human capital effects of education on fertility by exploiting a database that covers live births, miscarriages, abortions, and still births and contains information on the time of conception. We find that longer schooling decreases the probability of getting pregnant during the school year but not during summer and Christmas breaks, which suggests that the estimated effects are generated mostly through the incapacitation channel.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Books or babies? The incapacitation effect of schooling on minority women |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00148-020-00771-9 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-020-00771-9 |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Education · Compulsory school leaving age · Teenage fertility · Disadvantaged ethnic minorities · Regression discontinuity design |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10097131 |
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