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Age of Menarche, Adolescent Sexual Intercourse and Schooling Attainment of Women

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  • Jian Huang
  • Wim Groot
  • John G. Sessions
  • Yinyen Tseng

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We use data from the 1970 British Cohort Study to measure the effect of adolescent sexual intercourse on female schooling attainment. We emphasize the appropriate use of menarcheal age as an instrumental variable (IV) for early intercourse. Our analysis suggests that developmental trajectories vary with menarcheal age and, therefore, capturing variations in individual cognitive capacities induced by pubertal timing is crucial for the validity of the IV identification strategy. Our empirical results indicate that adolescent sexuality reduces full‐time education by approximately one year. Given that 37 percent of females in our data exited virginity in adolescence, the aggregate loss of human capital as measured by average years of female schooling could be up to one‐third of a year.

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  • Jian Huang & Wim Groot & John G. Sessions & Yinyen Tseng, 2019. "Age of Menarche, Adolescent Sexual Intercourse and Schooling Attainment of Women," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 81(4), pages 717-743, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:obuest:v:81:y:2019:i:4:p:717-743
    DOI: 10.1111/obes.12284
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