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The causal effect of education on women’s empowerment: evidence from Kenya

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  • Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung
  • Nahashon Nzioka Nthenya

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This paper investigated the impacts of education on women’s empowerment in Kenya using six waves of nationally-representative KDHS data. Our study utilizes the change in educational structure in 1985 as an instrument and finds that women under the new system enhanced their schooling by approximately two years. One year of education prolongs women’s timing of the first birth, decreases female genital mutilation for the first daughter, reduces intimate partner violence, and improves women’s household decision-making. Our findings are robust to several robustness checks. We examined different paths to explain these results, including information exposure, partner matching, and labor market engagement.

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  • Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung & Nahashon Nzioka Nthenya, 2024. "The causal effect of education on women’s empowerment: evidence from Kenya," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(2), pages 210-228, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:edecon:v:32:y:2024:i:2:p:210-228
    DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2023.2202370
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