| Author: Lucia Breierova and Esther Duflo |
| InfoShare Partner: OECD Development Centre |
| Publication Date: November 2003 |
| Update Date: May 2006 |
| Type of Document: Article/Report/Paper |
| Topics: Child health/survival, Maternal health/survival, Reproductive health, general |
| Region: Asia/Pacific |
| Language: English |
| Additional information: Comments should be sent to : dev.contact@oecd.org . |
| Number of Pages: 37 |
| File Size: 614 KB |
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This paper takes advantage of a massive school construction program that took place in Indonesia between 1973 and 1978 to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school construction program generates instrumental variables for the average education in the household, and the difference in education between husband and wife. We show that female education is a stronger determinant of age at marriage and early fertility than male education. However, female and male education seem equally important factors in reducing child mortality. We suggest that the OLS estimate of the differential effect of women's and men's education may be biased by failure to take in to account assortative matching.
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