Female Admission Caps in Higher Education: The Case of Iran

Joint work with Julian Emami Namini and Laura Hering

We analyze the impact of this policy on higher education, the labor market and the marriage market, by exploiting differences in exposure to the policy across gender, cohorts and regions.

We find that the resulting unexpected reduction in programs had a negative impact on university education for women, in particular for those in urban areas.

We further show that the policy had a mixed impact on the labor market, with positive effects for women without university education and negative effects for women with university education. Finally, we find that the policy also had an impact on the marriage market, as it decreases the probability of young women to marry. 

About the speaker

I am an Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, ​Erasmus University Rotterdam. My research interests are development economics, economic history, economics of migration, applied econometrics, causal machine learning.

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