The Impact of Education On Fertility and Child Mortality: Do Fathers Really Matter Less than Mothers? OECD Development Centre Working Paper, No. 217 (Formerly Webdoc No. 5).

By L. Breierova, Esther Duflo. 2003

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Education or wealth: which matters more for reducing child mortality in developing countries? (2010, unknown): “In Indonesia, the intensive governmental effort at primary school construction between 1973 and 1978 has been used to examine the role of education on child mortality (Breierova and Duflo 2004).”
An Economic History of Fertility in the U.S.: 1826-1960 (2006, unknown): “This effect is present in the data to some degree since mortality rates for women during child bearing years are significant during the earlier parts of the period we consider.(17) Another issue that arises is the choice of age, A, at which the women are sampled.”
Does Education Empower Women? Evidence from Indonesia (2015, background): “Mocan and Cannonier (2012), for example, find education improves Sierra Leonean women’s attitudes towards women’s health and domestic violence, reduces their number of desired children, and increases their likelihood of using contraceptives and getting tested for AIDS; Breierova and Duflo (2004) and”
The Economic Impact of Colleges and Universities (2007, background): “Breierova and Duflo (2002), and Currie and Moretti (2003) find that higher maternal education improves infant health.”
Women's Education: Harbinger of Another Spring? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Turkey (2014, methodology): “…variable is then used to 4 estimate the effect of education on a variety of outcomes experienced by the treatment group of women and their offspring from information obtained when the treatment cohort was between the ages of 18 and 22 and the comparison cohort was between the ages of 23 and 29.”
Women’s Empowerment and Economic Development: A Feminist Critique of Storytelling Practices in “Randomista” Economics (2020, unknown): “Lucia Breierova and Esther Duﬂo (2004) examine the longer-term impact of the increase in education associated with a massive school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s.”
Population Policies, Fertility, Women's Human Capital, and Child Quality (2007, unknown): “Breierova and Duflo (2004) extend the analysis to assess the program’s impact on fertility and child mortality of parents who are better educated due to the program.”
The Global Demography of Aging: Facts, Explanations, Future (2016, unknown): “Growing causal evidence that exploits natural experiments in school expansions and compulsory schooling laws on child mortality also highlights the negative impact of schooling (Breierova and Duflo, 2004 ; Chou et al., 2010; Lleras-Muney, 2005).”
Accounting for Remittance and Migration Effects on Children's Schooling (2010, unknown): “13 Additionally, we account for the educational attainment of the male as well as the female spouse, factors found to be correlated with children’s educational outcomes in other studies (Haveman and Wolfe, 1995; Schultz, 2002; Breierova and Duflo, 2004).”
Education, Marriage, and Fertility: Long-Term Evidence from a Female Stipend Program in Bangladesh (2017, background): “It increases the age of marriage and reduces fertility (Currie and Moretti 2003; Breierova and Duflo 2004).”
Contextual stress and maternal sensitivity: A meta-analytic review of stress associations with the Maternal Behavior Q-Sort in observational studies (2018, unknown): “While maternal and paternal education are often correlated (thus paternal education might indicate general family SES), this is not always the case (Breierova & Duflo, 2004).”
Education and Nonmarket Outcomes (2005, methodology): “Breierova and Duflo (2004) capitalize on a primary school construction program in Indonesia between 1973 and 1978.”
A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950-2010 (2013, unknown): “The level and distribution of educational attainment also have impact on social outcomes, such as child mortality, fertility, education of children, and income distribution (see for example Barro and Lee, 1994, de Gregorio and Lee, 2002, Breierova and Duflo, 2004, Cutler et al., 2006).”