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Title: A Multinomial Logit Analysis of Teenage Fertility and High School Completion
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Ribar, David C. |
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A Multinomial Logit Analysis of Teenage Fertility and High School Completion Economics of Education Review 12,2 (June 1993): 153-164. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/027277579390026D Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing; Education; Educational Attainment; Family Background and Culture; Family Planning; High School; High School Completion/Graduates; Household Composition; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Regions; Welfare Uses data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine economic, institutional, and sociological antecedents of high school completion and adolescent fertility. Welfare generosity appears to have a significant positive effect on adolescent childbearing. Other important determinants of teenage parenthood and educational attainment are family planning clinic availability, family background, religiousness, physical maturity, race, and ethnicity. (MLH) |
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Ribar, David C. "A Multinomial Logit Analysis of Teenage Fertility and High School Completion." Economics of Education Review 12,2 (June 1993): 153-164.
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