Samarakoon, Shanika; Parinduri, Rasyad A. - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 428-442
This paper examines whether education empowers women. We exploit an exogenous variation in education induced by a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We find education reduces the number of live births, increases contraceptive use, and...