Longer school days, less teenage mothers : evidence from Colombia

This study analyzes the impact of longer school days on teenage fertility. Using administrative data of school enrollment and a national system of beneficiaries for social programs (Sisbén), I am able to identify teenagers who attended a Full School Day (7-hour schedule) or a half-day (4-hour schedule), and whether these teenagers gave birth between 2006 and 2009. I exploit plausibly exogenous within-school variation in the type of school day and estimate panel regressions with school and student fixed effects. Results indicate that attending a full-day instead of a half-day reduces teenage fertility rates by 0.6 p.p. (a 25% reduction from the mean), and that this effect is only evident in urban schools. Also, more years spent in FSD increasingly reduced teenage fertility.

• Autores: Borrero Escobar, Simón
• Tipo de recurso: Work document
• Fecha de publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad de los Andes
• Repositorio: Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/8854
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/1992/8854
• Palabra clave: Teenage fertility; Full school days; Within-school variation; Fecundidad humana - Investigaciones - Colombia; Madres adolescentes - Investigaciones - Colombia; Jornada escolar - Análisis de regresión - Investigaciones - Colombia; J12, J13, I28
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/