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Title: The Impacts of Teenage Childbearing on Mothers and the Consequences of those Impacts for Government
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Hotz, V. Joseph McElroy, Susan Williams Sanders, Seth G. |
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The Impacts of Teenage Childbearing on Mothers and the Consequences of those Impacts for Government Working Paper 95-10, Population Research Center, NORC-University of Chicago, Chicago IL, July 1996 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: National Opinion Research Center - NORC Keyword(s): Childbearing, Adolescent; Fertility; Mothers, Adolescent; Socioeconomic Factors; Teenagers In this chapter, we examine the effects of early childbearing on the subsequent behavior and socioeconomic attainment of teen mothers. To obtain reliable estimates of these effects, we use an innovative evaluation design in which teenage women who miscarried become a control group for comparison with teenage women who gave birth. Applying this design, we are able to sort out confounding factors that have led to common beliefs about the negative effects of teenage childbearing on the life prospects of the mothers and attempt to estimate the following set of causal effects: If young women who are "at risk" of becoming teen mothers are somehow convinced to delay their childbearing by two years, how substantially would their life prospects be improved and how much would this affect what the government spends overall on these woomen. |
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Hotz, V. Joseph, Susan Williams McElroy and Seth G. Sanders. "The Impacts of Teenage Childbearing on Mothers and the Consequences of those Impacts for Government." Working Paper 95-10, Population Research Center, NORC-University of Chicago, Chicago IL, July 1996. |