The effect of education on teenage fertility: causal evidence for Argentina
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Keywords
Teenage fertility; Education; Instrumental variables; Compulsory schooling laws; Latin America and the Caribbean; Argentina;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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