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Title: Teenage Childbearing and Maternal Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from Matching
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Sanders, Seth G. Smith, Jeffrey A. Zhang, Ye |
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Teenage Childbearing and Maternal Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from Matching Presented: New York, NY, Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, May 2008. Also: http://client.norc.org/jole/SOLEweb/826.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Maryland Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing, Adolescent; Educational Attainment; Mothers, Education; Schooling; Variables, Independent - Covariate Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper investigates to what extent the observed correlation between adolescent fertility and poor maternal educational attainment is causal. Semi-parametric kernel matching estimator is applied to estimate the effects of teenage childbearing on schooling outcomes. The matching method estimates the conditional moments without imposing any functional form restrictions and attends directly to the common support condition. Using data from the NLSY79 [1979-to-2002 waves], kernel matching estimates suggest that half of the cross-sectional educational gaps remains after controlling for individual and family covariates. The difference between matching estimates and regression-based estimates implies that part of the conditional difference in parametric models is due to the functional assumption. The robustness check following Altonji, Elder, and Taber (2005) reveals that a substantial amount of correlation is required within a parametric framework to make the negative effect of teen motherhood on educational attainment go away. Further evidence obtained by simulation-based nonparametric sensitivity analysis suggests that the matching estimates are quite robust with regard to a wide range of specifications of the simulated unobservables. The paper suggests that the "richness of covariates makes the sample ideal for our study and makes the assumption of selection-on-observables plausible. |
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Sanders, Seth G., Jeffrey A. Smith and Ye Zhang. "Teenage Childbearing and Maternal Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from Matching." Presented: New York, NY, Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, May 2008. |