Replication data for: Does Maternal Education Decrease Female Genital Cutting?
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Elisabetta De Cao; Giulia La Mattina
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Project Citation:
De Cao, Elisabetta, and La Mattina, Giulia. Replication data for: Does Maternal Education Decrease Female Genital Cutting? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116490V1
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Summary:
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Female genital cutting (FGC) affects more than 200 million women globally. Education is often depicted as an effective instrument for abandoning the practice, but causal evidence is scant. This paper uses the introduction of the Universal Primary Education program in Nigeria as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of mothers’ education on the probability that their daughters are cut. Household survey data indicate no statistically significant impact of the reform on the probability that daughters undergo FGC, which may be explained by an insignificant effect of the reform on maternal support for the practice.
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JEL Classification:
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I12 Health Behavior
I14 Health and Inequality
I15 Health and Economic Development
I25 Education and Economic Development
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
I12 Health Behavior
I14 Health and Inequality
I15 Health and Economic Development
I25 Education and Economic Development
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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