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The effect of female education on child mortality: evidence from Indonesia

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This paper examines the effect of female education on child mortality in Indonesia by exploiting a one-time change in the length of the 1978 school year as a source of exogenous variation in education. The results show that the education reform increases women’s educational attainment by 0.76 years and that one additional year of female education leads to a decrease in neonatal mortality by 0.5 percentage points. Mechanism analysis suggests that higher female education postpones the timing of marriage and of first birth, leads to higher quality of spouse and higher household wealth and increases the use of prenatal health care and mass media. However, I do not find significant impacts of female education on women’s empowerment in the household.

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  • Tianheng Wang, 2021. "The effect of female education on child mortality: evidence from Indonesia," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(27), pages 3207-3222, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:53:y:2021:i:27:p:3207-3222
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2021.1877253
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    1. Nguyen-Phung, Hang Thu, 2023. "The impact of maternal education on child mortality: Evidence from an increase tuition fee policy in Vietnam," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 96(C).

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