The GLO Discussion Paper of the Month of February  finds that raising the school leaving age can be effective in reducing the incidence of teenage pregnancy among socially excluded women, even if it does not affect the general population. An important policy implication is the potentially heterogeneous impact of educational interventions across different ethnic groups.   

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS, EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs downloadable for free.

GLO Discussion Paper of the Month: February

GLO Discussion Paper No. 474, 2020

Books or babies? The incapacitation effect of schooling on minority women – Download PDF
by Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna & Scharle, Ágota  

GLO Fellow  Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna

Author Abstract:   This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority in Hungary. We use a regression discontinuity design identification strategy and show that the reform decreased the probability of teenage motherhood among Roma women by 13.4-26.0% and delayed motherhood by two years. We separate the incapacitation and human capital effects of education on fertility by exploiting a database that covers live births, miscarriages, abortions and still births, and contains information on the time of conception precise to the week. We find that longer schooling decreases the probability of getting pregnant during the school year but not during summer and Christmas breaks, which suggests that the estimated effects are generated mostly through the incapacitation channel.

GLO Discussion Papers of February 2020

479 Incentive Pay and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China – Download PDF
by Jin, Zhangfeng & Pan, Shiyuan

478 Switching from an inclining to a zero-level unemployment benefit profile: Good for work incentives? – Download PDF
by Cockx, Bart & Declercq, Koen & Dejemeppe, Muriel & Inga, Leda & Van der Linden, Bruno

477 Resilience Strategies for Mismatched Workers: Microeconomic Evidence from Egypt – Download PDF
by Syed Zwick, Hélène

476 Sex Ratio and Global Sodomy Law Reform in the Post-WWII Era – Download PDF
by Chang, Simon

475 The Impact of Air Pollution on Attributable Risks and Economic Costs of Hospitalization for Mental Disorders – Download PDF
by Wu, Ziting & Chen, Xi & Li, Guoxing & Tian, Lin & Wang, Zhan & Xiong, Xiuqin & Yang, Chuan & Zhou, Zijun & Pan, Xiaochuan

474 Books or babies? The incapacitation effect of schooling on minority women – Download PDF
by Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna & Scharle, Ágota

473 Teacher Labor Markets in Developing Countries – Download PDF
by Crawfurd, Lee & Pugatch, Todd

472 Women’s optimism, the gender happiness equaliser: a case of South Africa – Download PDF
by Greyling, Talita & Fisher, Bianca

471 Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact – Download PDF
by Montobbio, Fabio & Staccioli, Jacopo & Virgillito, Maria Enrica & Vivarelli, Marco

470 Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans – Download PDF
by  Antman, Francisca M. & Duncan, Brian & Trejo, Stephen J.

469 Inflated Expectations and Commodity Prices: Evidence from Kazakhstan – Download PDF
by  Girard, Victoire & Kudebayeva, Alma & Toews, Gerhard

468 Which Model for Poverty Predictions? – Download PDF
by Verme, Paolo

467 Affirmative Action and Intersectionality at the Top: Evidence from South Africa – Download PDF
by Klasen, Stephan & Minasyan, Anna

466 Innovation Strategies and Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Evidence from Pakistan – Download PDF
by Wadho, Waqar & Chaudhry, Azam

465 Educational mismatches, technological change and unemployment: evidence from secondary and tertiary educated workers –  Download PDF
by Esposito, Piero & Scicchitano, Sergio

464 Reducing the income tax burden for households with children: An assessment of the child tax credit reform in Austria –  Download PDF
by Christl, Michael & De Poli, Silvia & Varga, Janos

463 The Retirement Migration Puzzle in China –  Download PDF
by Chen, Simiao & Jin, Zhangfeng & Prettner, Klaus

462 Rising longevity, increasing the retirement age, and the consequences for knowledge-based long-run growth –  Download PDF
by Kuhn, Michael & Prettner, Klaus

461 Exports and long-run growth: The case of Spain, 1850-2017 –  Download PDF
by Bajo-Rubio, Oscar

460 Weathering the storm: Weather shocks and international migrants from the Philippines –  Download PDF
by Pajaron, Marjorie C. & Vasquez, Glacer Niño A.

GLO DP Team
Senior Editors: Matloob Piracha (University of Kent) & GLO; Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and Bonn University).
Managing Editor: Magdalena Ulceluse, University of Groningen. DP@glabor.org  

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