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Title: Understanding the Link Between the Economy and Teenage Sexual Behavior and Fertility Outcomes
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Arkes, Jeremy Klerman, Jacob Alex |
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Understanding the Link Between the Economy and Teenage Sexual Behavior and Fertility Outcomes Journal of Population Economics 22,3 (July 2009): 517-536. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/0717263807272372/ Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Contraception; Economics of Minorities; Endogeneity; Ethnic Studies; Gender Differences; Racial Studies; Sexual Activity; Teenagers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We use individual-level data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and state unemployment rates to examine how the economy affects fertility and its proximate determinants for several groups based on gender, age (15-17 and 18-20 groups), and race/ethnicity. We find that, for 15- to 17-year-old females, several behaviors leading to pregnancies and pregnancies themselves are higher when the unemployment rate is higher, which is consistent with the counter-cyclical fertility patterns for this group. For 18- to 20-year-old males, the results suggested counter-cyclical patterns of fertility behaviors/outcomes for whites, but pro-cyclical patterns for blacks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Arkes, Jeremy and Jacob Alex Klerman. "Understanding the Link Between the Economy and Teenage Sexual Behavior and Fertility Outcomes." Journal of Population Economics 22,3 (July 2009): 517-536.
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