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Title: Teenage Fertility and High School Completion
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Ribar, David C. |
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Teenage Fertility and High School Completion Working Paper No. 10-91-2, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, March 1992 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Benefits; Childbearing, Adolescent; Family Planning; Fertility; Modeling, Probit; Religion; School Completion; State Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper uses 1979-85 data on women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the economic, sociological and institutional antecedents of adolescent childbearing and high school completion and to rigorously analyze the effect of early childbearing on school completion. Fertility and school completion are modeled as dichotomous outcomes, and their determinants are estimated using a bivariate probit specification. The paper finds that Medicaid generosity, the availability of family planning services, family background, religiousness and physical maturity are important determinants of early childbearing and that family background and religiousness are important determinants of schooling. Interestingly, the paper finds that teenage fertility has no significant negative effect on high school completion. |
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Ribar, David C. "Teenage Fertility and High School Completion." Working Paper No. 10-91-2, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, March 1992. |