fertility. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have more children …Using arguably exogenous variation in college expansions we estimate the effects of college education on female … than mothers without a college education. Lower child–income penalties of college-educated mothers of two relative to …

To study the effect of education on women’s empowerment in Nigeria, we employ the variation in the intensity of funding … of universal primary education program introduced in Nigeria in 1976 as a source of variation when identifying the … individual’s years of schooling. The analysis suggests that increasing female education by one year significantly increases women …

maternal education and two questions are addressed. First, whether the effect of mother education differs inside and outside … camp. Results show a slightly stronger effect of maternal education in the camp for short-to-middle-term health outcomes …, the analysis highlights the role played by maternal education not only as a way to improve child health but also as a …