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Longer school days, less teenage mothers: Evidence from Colombia

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  • Simón Borrero Escobar

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This study analyzes the impact of longer school days on teenage fertility. Using administrative data of school enrollment and a national system of beneficiaries for social programs (Sisbén), I am able to identify teenagers who attended a Full School Day (7-hour schedule) or a half-day (4-hour schedule), and whether these teenagers gave birth between 2006 and 2009. I exploit plausibly exogenous within-school variation in the type of school day and estimate panel regressions with school and student fixed effects. Results indicate that attending a full-day instead of a half-day reduces teenage fertility rates by 0.6 p.p. (a 25% reduction from the mean), and that this effect is only evident in urban schools. Also, more years spent in FSD increasingly reduced teenage fertility.

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  • Simón Borrero Escobar, 2017. "Longer school days, less teenage mothers: Evidence from Colombia," Documentos CEDE 15817, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.
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    Keywords

    Teenage fertility; Full school days; Within-school variation.;
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    JEL classification:

    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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