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Title: Patterns of Later Life Education Among Teenage Mothers
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Rich, Lauren M. Kim, Sun-Bin |
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Patterns of Later Life Education Among Teenage Mothers Gender and Society 13,6 (December 1999): 798-817. Also: http://gas.sagepub.com/content/13/6/798.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Education; Education, Adult; Educational Attainment; Mothers, Adolescent; Racial Differences; Teenagers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth to examine the phenomenon of later life education among women who first give birth as teenagers. The analysis first considers patterns of educational attainment through the middle 30s for all women, disaggregated by age at first birth. This allows for an examination of the amount of education received by teen mothers relative to women who delay giving birth until adulthood. The analysis also considers racial-ethnic differences in patterns of attainment. Next, the analysis is restricted to teen mothers and focuses on an examination of the composition of educational attainment according to the amount of time that has elapsed since the first birth. The findings suggest that later life education among teen mothers is an important and understudied phenomenon with implications for welfare reform and adult education policies. |
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Rich, Lauren M. and Sun-Bin Kim. "Patterns of Later Life Education Among Teenage Mothers." Gender and Society 13,6 (December 1999): 798-817.
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