Education and reproductive health: evidence from schooling expansion in Turkey

Prabal K. De () and Muhammed Tümay ()
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Prabal K. De: CUNY City College and Graduate Center
Muhammed Tümay: Gumushane University

International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2024, vol. 24, issue 2, No 7, 331 pages

Abstract: Abstract We investigate the role of additional years of schooling mandated by a compulsory schooling expansion law in affecting reproductive preferences and safe reproductive health behaviors in Turkey—a middle-to-high-income country with gender inequity in education but overall high levels of safe reproductive health practices at the time of passing the law. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, we find that the additional schooling improved several health behaviors. However, the effects on some outcomes commonly analyzed in the existing literature, such as contraceptive use or fertility, were either weak or insignificant. Overall, our findings complement the current literature on the marginal health benefits of schooling expansion and suggest that policymakers consider the institutional and cultural factors while evaluating the scope and potential non-educational benefits of such expansions.

Keywords: Education; Reproductive health; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I00 I12 I25 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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