Extended School Day and Teenage Fertility in Dominican Republic

This paper investigates the potential impact of extended school days in reducing teenage fertility. We study the Jornada Escolar Extendida program, which doubled the school-day length from 4 to 8 hours in the Dominican Republic, and exploit the geographic and time variation induced by its gradual im...

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Autores principales: Garganta, Santiago, Pinto, María Florencia, Zentner, Joaquín
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Publicado: 2023
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Ciencias Económicas
School day extension
risky behavior
teenage fertility
Dominican Republic
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/155694
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1556942023-08-01T20:07:10Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/155694 Extended School Day and Teenage Fertility in Dominican Republic Garganta, Santiago Pinto, María Florencia Zentner, Joaquín 2023-08 2023-08-01T14:10:03Z en Ciencias Económicas School day extension risky behavior teenage fertility Dominican Republic This paper investigates the potential impact of extended school days in reducing teenage fertility. We study the Jornada Escolar Extendida program, which doubled the school-day length from 4 to 8 hours in the Dominican Republic, and exploit the geographic and time variation induced by its gradual implementation. We find evidence that a higher exposure to JEE in the municipality, measured as the percentage of secondary students covered by the program, reduces the incidence of teenage pregnancies, and that the effect is stronger after the program has reached at least half of secondary students in the municipality. The estimates are robust to various specifications and alternative checks. These results suggest that extended school-day policies can have spillover effects regarding teenagers’ fertility choices. Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales Articulo Documento de trabajo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
School day extension
risky behavior
teenage fertility
Dominican Republic
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risky behavior
teenage fertility
Dominican Republic
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Pinto, María Florencia
Zentner, Joaquín
Extended School Day and Teenage Fertility in Dominican Republic
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risky behavior
teenage fertility
Dominican Republic
description This paper investigates the potential impact of extended school days in reducing teenage fertility. We study the Jornada Escolar Extendida program, which doubled the school-day length from 4 to 8 hours in the Dominican Republic, and exploit the geographic and time variation induced by its gradual implementation. We find evidence that a higher exposure to JEE in the municipality, measured as the percentage of secondary students covered by the program, reduces the incidence of teenage pregnancies, and that the effect is stronger after the program has reached at least half of secondary students in the municipality. The estimates are robust to various specifications and alternative checks. These results suggest that extended school-day policies can have spillover effects regarding teenagers’ fertility choices.
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Pinto, María Florencia
Zentner, Joaquín
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Zentner, Joaquín
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title Extended School Day and Teenage Fertility in Dominican Republic
title_short Extended School Day and Teenage Fertility in Dominican Republic
title_full Extended School Day and Teenage Fertility in Dominican Republic
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