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Covington, Reginald Monson, William Peters, H. Elizabeth Price, Joseph P. Sabia, Joseph J. |
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The Consequences of Teen Fatherhood: A Cohort Comparison of the NLSY79 and NLSY97 Presented: Bethesda MD, National Center for Family and Marriage Research's Fathers and Fathering in Contemporary Contexts Research Conference, May 2012 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: National Center for Family and Marriage Research Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Civic Engagement; Educational Attainment; Fatherhood; Parenthood Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Research Questions: What are the consequences of having a teen birth on a variety of educational and economic outcomes and on civic engagement? What are the differences in effects for teen mothers compared to teen fathers? How have the consequences of teen parenthood changed across cohorts? How stable are the results across different methods used to account for selection into teen parenthood Conclusions: Having a teen birth has negative consequences for a variety of outcomes Some Consequences are similar for man and Women: Education; Civic engagement measures (except charitable giving) Other consequences affect women primarily: Charitable giving; Poverty; Food stamp receipt Many results are robust across multiple methods to account for selection: Education; Charitable giving (for women) Other results become insignificant when using methods that account for unobservables: Civic engagement measures (except charitable giving); Food stamp receipt; Poverty |
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Covington, Reginald, William Monson, H. Elizabeth Peters, Joseph P. Price and Joseph J. Sabia. "The Consequences of Teen Fatherhood: A Cohort Comparison of the NLSY79 and NLSY97." Presented: Bethesda MD, National Center for Family and Marriage Research's Fathers and Fathering in Contemporary Contexts Research Conference, May 2012. |