Secondary School as a Contraceptive: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Burundi
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Keywords
schooling; fertility; contraception; Africa; regression discontinuity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2016-04-23 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2016-04-23 (Labour Economics)
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