The Effect of Schooling on Teenage Fertility: Evidence from the 1994 Education Reform in Ethiopia
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Keywords
Ethiopia; Education Policy; Fertility; Female Education; Age at Marriage; Regression Discontinuity.;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2016-11-20 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2016-11-20 (Education)
- NEP-LTV-2016-11-20 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-URE-2016-11-20 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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