THE EFFECTS OF EDUCATION ON FERTILITY: EVIDENCE FROM TAIWAN.
This study investigates the impact of women's education on fertility. For identification, we use the 1968 compulsory education law change in Taiwan, which generated a regression discontinuity design (RDD) setting. We use the whole population of women from the 1980 and 2010 Population Censuses. Resul...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 343 - 358 |
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