The Impact of Schooling on the Timing of Marriage and Fertility: Evidence from a Change in Compulsory Schooling Law

Date

2009-01-01

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Kırdar, Murat Güray
Dayıoğlu Tayfur, Meltem
Koç, İsmet

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This paper estimates the impact of schooling on the timing of marriage and early fertility using the 2003 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey and duration analysis methodology. The source of exogenous variation in schooling is the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey in 1997. The findings indicate that at age 17 –three years after the completion of compulsory schooling –, the proportion of women who are married drops from 15.2 to 10 percent and the proportion of women who have given birth falls from 6.2 to 3.5 percent as a result of the new policy. This implies that the impact of increased schooling on marriage and early fertility persists beyond the completion of compulsory schooling for an important duration. In addition, the delay in the timing of first-birth is driven from the delay in the timing of marriage. After a woman is married, schooling does not have an effect on the duration until her first-birth.

Subject Keywords

Age at marriage, Fertility, Education, Compulsory Schooling, Turkey

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71305
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13410/1/MPRA_paper_13410.pdf

Journal

IZA Discussion Paper no. 5887

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Department of Economics, Article

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M. G. Kırdar, M. Dayıoğlu Tayfur, and İ. Koç, “The Impact of Schooling on the Timing of Marriage and Fertility: Evidence from a Change in Compulsory Schooling Law,” IZA Discussion Paper no. 5887, pp. 0–0, 2009, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71305.