As of 2014, the Burundi government has pledged that children can continue their basic schooling until grade 9. The fertility impact of this new schooling policy is potentially strong. However, there are three important elements in this story that are less well understood: what will be the magnitude of this new policy’s effect; what is the causality in the relationship between fertility and education; and what are the mechanisms driving it?
Verwimp, Philip (2018) New Education Policy in Burundi Could Halve Teenage Pregnancy, PRIO blog. 22 June.
