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1. McCrate, Elaine
Returns to Education and Teenage Childbearing
Working Paper, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College and Economics Department, University of Vermont, 1989
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Radcliffe College
Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing; Childbearing, Adolescent; Educational Returns; Teenagers

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Teenage childbearing has received much recent attention, in great part because of its association with lower years of schooling, especially lower rates of high school completion. Based on wage regressions using data from the NLSY, it is argued that teenage motherhood is not therefore irrational: returns to education are lower for the women who become teenage mothers, and the difference is not due to the birth itself. Rather, the difference is most likely due to the quality of education or the rationing of primary sector jobs.
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McCrate, Elaine. "Returns to Education and Teenage Childbearing." Working Paper, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College and Economics Department, University of Vermont, 1989.