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Title: The Effect on Teenage Childbearing on Social Capital Development: New Evidence on Civic Engagement
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Sabia, Joseph J. Price, Joseph P. Peters, H. Elizabeth Covington, Reginald |
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The Effect on Teenage Childbearing on Social Capital Development: New Evidence on Civic Engagement Review of Economics of the Household 16,3 (September 2018): 629-659. Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11150-017-9371-3 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Civic Engagement; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Mothers, Adolescent; Parenthood; Political Attitudes/Behaviors/Efficacy; Social Capital; Volunteer Work; Voting Behavior Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), we examine the relationship between teenage childbearing and four measures of adult civic engagement: charitable giving, volunteerism, political awareness, and voting. After accounting for selection on observables via propensity score matching and selection on unobservables via family fixed effects and instrumental variables approaches, we find that teen motherhood is negatively related to adult civic engagement. Descriptive evidence suggests that teen birth-induced reductions in educational attainment and the time-intensive nature of childcare are important mechanisms. Finally, we find that while the adverse civic engagement effects of teen parenthood may extend to teen fathers, the effects are much smaller in magnitude. |
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Sabia, Joseph J., Joseph P. Price, H. Elizabeth Peters and Reginald Covington. "The Effect on Teenage Childbearing on Social Capital Development: New Evidence on Civic Engagement." Review of Economics of the Household 16,3 (September 2018): 629-659.
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