Does Education Empower Women? Evidence from Indonesia
By Shanika Samarakoon, R. Parinduri. 2015
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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 promotes reproductive health practices. However, except for a few outcome measures, we do not find evidence that education improves women’s decision-making authority within households, asset ownership, or community participation. These results suggest that, to some extent, education does empower women in middle-income countries like Indonesia.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Safety Research
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