This article investigates the causal relationship between women’s schooling and fertility by exploiting variation generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both geographic variation in the intensity of its impact and temporal variation generated by the timing of the implementation. The model finds that the removal of school fees led to an increase in schooling for Ethiopian women and that each additional year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in women’s ideal number of children.

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免费的初等教育，生育和妇女进入劳动力市场：埃塞俄比亚的证据

本文通过利用埃塞俄比亚免除学费产生的差异，研究了妇女受教育程度与生育率之间的因果关系。通过改革影响强度的地理变化和实施时间产生的时间变化来确定改革带来的教育增加。该模型发现，免除学费会导致埃塞俄比亚妇女的学业增加，而每增加一年的学业就会导致生育率下降。对将学校教育与生育能力联系起来的潜在机制的调查发现，生育能力的下降与劳动力市场机会的增加和妇女理想子女人数的减少有关。