Education policy and early fertility: Lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling
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- Grönqvist, Hans & Hall, Caroline, 2013. "Education policy and early fertility: Lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 37(C), pages 13-33.
- Grönqvist, Hans & Hall, Caroline, 2011. "Education policy and early fertility: lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling," Working Paper Series 2011:24, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
- Grönqvist, Hans & Hall, Caroline, 2011. "Education policy and early fertility: Lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling," Working Paper Series, Center for Labor Studies 2011:20, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
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Keywords
Schooling reform; teenage childbearing; fertility;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2012-01-18 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2012-01-18 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2012-01-18 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-URE-2012-01-18 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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