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Author: Covington, Reginald
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Covington, Reginald Monson, William Peters, H. Elizabeth Price, Joseph P. Sabia, Joseph J. |
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The Consequences of Teen Fatherhood: A Cohort Comparison of the NLSY79 and NLSY97 Presented: Bethesda MD, National Center for Family and Marriage Research's Fathers and Fathering in Contemporary Contexts Research Conference, May 2012 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: National Center for Family and Marriage Research Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Civic Engagement; Educational Attainment; Fatherhood; Parenthood Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Research Questions: What are the consequences of having a teen birth on a variety of educational and economic outcomes and on civic engagement? What are the differences in effects for teen mothers compared to teen fathers? How have the consequences of teen parenthood changed across cohorts? How stable are the results across different methods used to account for selection into teen parenthood Conclusions: Having a teen birth has negative consequences for a variety of outcomes Some Consequences are similar for man and Women: Education; Civic engagement measures (except charitable giving) Other consequences affect women primarily: Charitable giving; Poverty; Food stamp receipt Many results are robust across multiple methods to account for selection: Education; Charitable giving (for women) Other results become insignificant when using methods that account for unobservables: Civic engagement measures (except charitable giving); Food stamp receipt; Poverty |
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Covington, Reginald, William Monson, H. Elizabeth Peters, Joseph P. Price and Joseph J. Sabia. "The Consequences of Teen Fatherhood: A Cohort Comparison of the NLSY79 and NLSY97." Presented: Bethesda MD, National Center for Family and Marriage Research's Fathers and Fathering in Contemporary Contexts Research Conference, May 2012. |
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Covington, Reginald Peters, H. Elizabeth Price, Joseph P. Sabia, Joseph J. |
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Teen Fatherhood and Educational Attainment: A Cohort Comparison of the NLSY79 and NLSY97 Presented: European Conference On Health Economics (ECHE), July 2012 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Swiss Association for Health Economics Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Civic Engagement; College Education; Educational Attainment; Fatherhood; High School Completion/Graduates; Parenthood; Propensity Scores; Volunteer Work; Voting Behavior Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from two cohorts of youths from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1979 and 1997 we estimate the effect of teen parenthood on educational attainment. Across a number of econometric strategies designed to control for measured and unmeasured heterogeneity—including propensity score matching, family fixed effects and instrumental variables—we find that teen fatherhood is associated with a lower probability of high school graduation and college attendance. While the magnitudes of the adverse schooling effects are larger for teen mothers than for teen fathers in the NLSY79 cohort, the costs of fatherhood increased in the NLSY97 cohort, narrowing the gap between men and women. |
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Covington, Reginald, H. Elizabeth Peters, Joseph P. Price and Joseph J. Sabia. "Teen Fatherhood and Educational Attainment: A Cohort Comparison of the NLSY79 and NLSY97." Presented: European Conference On Health Economics (ECHE), July 2012. |
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Covington, Reginald Peters, H. Elizabeth Sabia, Joseph J. Price, Joseph P. |
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Teen Fatherhood and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Three Cohorts of Youth Working Paper, Cornell University, October 2011. Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Department of Economics, Cornell University Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing, Adolescent; College Enrollment; Educational Attainment; Fatherhood; Gender Differences; High School Completion/Graduates; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Propensity Scores; Teenagers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. While a large number of studies have explored the schooling effects of teen motherhood, very few have examined the consequences of teen fatherhood. Using data drawn from two cohorts of youth from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and 1997 (NLSY79 and NLSY97), we examine the relationship between teen parenthood and educational attainment, with careful attention to the role of family- and individual-level unmeasured heterogeneity. We find that teen mothers had a larger schooling penalty than teen fathers in the earlier cohort, but this difference appears to have diminished over time, with men in the NLSY97 cohort having a larger educational penalty than those from the NLSY79 cohort. |
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Covington, Reginald, H. Elizabeth Peters, Joseph J. Sabia and Joseph P. Price. "Teen Fatherhood and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Three Cohorts of Youth." Working Paper, Cornell University, October 2011. |
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Maclean, Johanna Catherine Covington, Reginald Sikora Kessler, Asia |
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Labor Market Conditions at School-Leaving: Long-Run Effects on Marriage and Fertility Contemporary Economic Policy 34,1 (January 2016): 63-88. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/coep.12113/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Western Economic Association International Keyword(s): Economic Changes/Recession; Education; Fertility; Gender Differences; Geocoded Data; Marriage; Transition, School to Work; Unemployment Rate, Regional In this study, we assess the long-run impact of labor market conditions at the time of school-leaving on marriage and fertility outcomes. We draw data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Our sample left school between 1976 and 1989, and we use variation in the state unemployment rate at the time of school-leaving to identify persistent effects. We find that men who left school when the state unemployment rate was high are less likely to be married and have children at age 45, but are more likely to be divorced. Women, however, are more likely to have children |
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Maclean, Johanna Catherine, Reginald Covington and Asia Sikora Kessler. "Labor Market Conditions at School-Leaving: Long-Run Effects on Marriage and Fertility." Contemporary Economic Policy 34,1 (January 2016): 63-88.
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Maclean, Johanna Catherine Covington, Reginald Sikora, Asia |
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Leaving School in an Economic Downturn: Long-Run Effects on Marriage and Fertility Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Divorce; Dropouts; Economic Changes/Recession; Fertility; Marriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this study we assess the long-run impact of leaving school in an economic downturn on marriage and fertility outcomes. We draw data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Our sample left school between 1976 and 1996, and we utilize variation in the state unemployment rate at the time of school-leaving to identify marriage and fertility effects. We find that men who left school in an economic downturn are less likely to be married and have children at age 40 than otherwise similar men while women are more likely to be divorced and to have children. Our results suggest that the marriage and fertility effects we observe operate through both divorce and failure to enter marriage. In an extension, we explore heterogeneity by worker characteristics and document the strongest effects for low skill and minority men. |
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Maclean, Johanna Catherine, Reginald Covington and Asia Sikora. "Leaving School in an Economic Downturn: Long-Run Effects on Marriage and Fertility." Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014. |
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Peters, H. Elizabeth Sabia, Joseph J. Price, Joseph P. Covington, Reginald |
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The Effects of Teen and Early Fatherhood on Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Childbearing, Adolescent; Educational Attainment; Fatherhood; Gender Differences; Labor Market Outcomes; National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS); Pregnancy, Adolescent; Teenagers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A report from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy concluded that the public cost of teen births reached $9.1 billion in 2004. Much of the literature on the consequences of teen childbearing has focused on women, although the size of the effects varies widely depending on the techniques used to control for endogeneity. Despite the fact that men's role in fertility is receiving increasing attention, very little work estimates the consequences of early fatherhood. In this paper, we estimate the schooling and labor market consequences for men, using many of the same empirical techniques that have been used for women. We compare the consequences for men and women across three different data sets, the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the 1988 National Educational Longitudinal Survey, which enable us to analyze changes in the effect of teen parenthood over time. |
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Peters, H. Elizabeth, Joseph J. Sabia, Joseph P. Price and Reginald Covington. "The Effects of Teen and Early Fatherhood on Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011. |
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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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