The Effect of Female Education on Adolescent Fertility and Early Marriage: Evidence from Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education in Ghana
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DOI: 10.1093/jae/ejx025
Abstract: This paper uses the implementation of Ghana’s Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) in 1996 as a natural experiment to investigate the causal effect of female education on adolescent fertility and early marriage. Girls who… read more here.
Keywords: early marriage; effect; fertility early; adolescent fertility ... See more keywords