Monica J. Grant
The Demographic Promise of Expanded Female Education: Trends in the Age at First Birth in Malawi
University of Wisconsin–Madison
expansion female education promoted way postpone age first birth subsaharan africa first cohorts benefit policies expanded access education reaching adulthood beginning childbearing investigate whether expansion education malawi implemented free primary education policy 1994 subsequently expanded secondary schooling led later age first birth whether education gradient fertility timing remained stable time despite increases female grade attainment past twenty years age first birth changed using instrumental variables analysis find significant negative association grade attainment age first birth suggesting deterioration school quality shift age pattern enrollment accompanied educational expansion may compromised transformative potential education