McCrary Justin, Royer Heather
School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, 586 Simon Hall, Berkeley, CA 94708.
Am Econ Rev. 2011 Feb 1;101(1):158-195. doi: 10.1257/aer.101.1.158.
This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the school entry date. School entry policies affect female education and the quality of a woman's mate and have generally small, but possibly heterogeneous, effects on fertility and infant health. We argue that school entry policies manipulate primarily the education of young women at risk of dropping out of school.
本文利用入学年龄政策来确定女性教育对生育和婴儿健康的影响。我们关注入学日期前后出生的女性在上学、生育和婴儿健康方面的显著差异。入学政策影响女性教育和女性配偶的质量，对生育和婴儿健康的影响通常较小，但可能存在异质性。我们认为，入学政策主要影响的是有辍学风险的年轻女性的教育。
