报告题目 | ‘Bachelors’ and Babies: The Effect of Tertiary Education Expansion on Fertility |
报告人（单位） | Simon Chang (University of Western Australia) |
主持人（单位） | 冯伟（东南大学）；邵军（东南大学） |
时间地点 | 2021年11月4日上午9:30，腾讯会议室：880 785 627 |
报告内容简介 | |
We draw attention to two identification issues with previous studies that utilized tertiary education expansion to estimate the causal effect of education on fertility: (i) the mis-categorization of women past the usual college-entry age as “unexposed” to the expansion, and (ii) a possible violation of the exclusion restriction when using the expansion as an instrument for female education. We exploit the tertiary education expansion in Taiwan, with a novel focus on women past college-entry age, to show that it also lowered the fertility of these more mature women both with and without tertiary education, suggesting that the effect did not operate through education alone. | |
报告人简介 | |
Simon Chang is a senior lecturer at the University of Western Australia. He is also a research fellow at the IZA and fellow at GLO. His research areas include health economics, labor economics, and demographic economics. His research has appeared in journals such as Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Population Economics, Health Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, China Economic Review. | |
