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Does Maternal Education Decrease Female Genital Cutting?

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  • Elisabetta De Cao
  • Giulia La Mattina

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Female genital cutting (FGC) affects more than 200 million women globally. Education is often depicted as an effective instrument for abandoning the practice, but causal evidence is scant. This paper considers the introduction of the Universal Primary Education program as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of mothers’ education on the probability that their daughters are cut. Using the 1999 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey, we find no statistically significant impact of the reform on the probability that their daughters undergo circumcision, which may be explained by an insignificant effect of the reform on maternal support for FGC.

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  • Elisabetta De Cao & Giulia La Mattina, 2019. "Does Maternal Education Decrease Female Genital Cutting?," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 109, pages 100-104, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:109:y:2019:p:100-104
    Note: DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20191098
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    1. Novak, Lindsey, 2020. "Persistent norms and tipping points: The case of female genital cutting," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 177(C), pages 433-474.

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    JEL classification:

    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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