TY  - JOUR
AU  - McCrary,Justin
AU  - Royer,Heather
TI  - The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12329
PY  - 2006
Y2  - June 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12329
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12329.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Justin McCrary
School of Law
University of California, Berkeley
586 Simon Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
Tel: (510) 643-6252
E-Mail: jmccrary@law.berkeley.edu

Heather Royer
Department of Economics
University of California, Santa Barbara
2127 North Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Tel: 805/893-3797
Fax: 805/893-8830
E-Mail: royer@econ.ucsb.edu
AB  - 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%u2019s 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.
ER  -