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Source: Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University
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1. Hill, Elizabeth T.
Pre-retirement Labor Market Effects of Woman's Post-School-Age Training
Working Paper, Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University - Mont Alto, 1991
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University
Keyword(s): Education; Educational Returns; Labor Force Participation; Training; Unemployment Rate, Regional; Wages; Women

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Many women acquire education and training after the usual schooling age. This study uses the 1984 NLS Mature Women's cohort to determine whether obtaining post-school-age education or training has an impact on women's labor force participation and wages during the pre-retirement years. The 1984 survey has an advantage in that the oldest of the women in the study were not yet eligible for retirement benefits. The study compares the labor force participation of women who acquired training later and those who did not, examining whether the women worked in 1984 and whether they had plans to work in the future. Results indicate that post-school-age training is associated with greater labor force participation during the pre-retirement years. In addition, during the years immediately preceding the usual retirement age, the wages of women who obtained later training rose at a faster rate than the wages of those women who did not.
Bibliography Citation
Hill, Elizabeth T. "Pre-retirement Labor Market Effects of Woman's Post-School-Age Training." Working Paper, Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University - Mont Alto, 1991.
2. Ribar, David C.
Teenage Fertility and Early Adult Labor Force Participation
Working Paper No. 4-92-1, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, April 1992
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University
Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Benefits; Childbearing; Educational Attainment; Religion; School Completion; Schooling; State Welfare; Teenagers

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Bibliography Citation
Ribar, David C. "Teenage Fertility and Early Adult Labor Force Participation." Working Paper No. 4-92-1, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, April 1992.
3. 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
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.
Bibliography Citation
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.