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...
Vea más
INFORMACIÓN
-
2020/10/05
-
Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
-
WPS9420
-
1
-
1
-
2020/10/05
-
Disclosed
-
Secondary Schools and Teenage Childbearing : Evidence from the School Expansion in Brazilian Municipalities
-
Federal Ministry of Health