Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/245723 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14672
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We draw attention to two identification issues with previous studies that utilized tertiary education expansion to estimate the causal effect of education on fertility: (i) the mis-categorization of women past the usual college-entry age as "unexposed" to the expansion, and (ii) a possible violation of the exclusion restriction when using the expansion as an instrument for female education. We exploit the tertiary education expansion in Taiwan starting in 1996, with a novel focus on women past college-entry age, to document significant negative effects on the fertility of women as old as 30 at the onset of the expansion. We also show that the expansion lowered the fertility of women both with and without tertiary education, suggesting that the effect did not operate through education alone.
Subjects: 
college expansion
marriage market
fertility
Taiwan
JEL: 
I23
J13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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