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Matrimonial rights & female education

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  • Jerphanion, Emiel

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This article explores how prospective matrimonial rights affect female education. To isolate the causal effect, I focus on a South African reform that makes women joint administrators of marital property. Exploiting birth year variation in exposure to the reform I estimate the differences in educational trends of Sotho women around the country border. The results show that female education increases by 6–12 months. This finding is robust to using an alternative identification strategy exploiting variation between ethnic groups within South Africa. A placebo test validates there is no effect for male education.

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  • Jerphanion, Emiel, 2023. "Matrimonial rights & female education," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 227(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:227:y:2023:i:c:s0165176523001507
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111125
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    Keywords

    Female education; Matrimonial rights; Female empowerment;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • K38 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Human Rights Law; Gender Law; Animal Rights Law

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