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Title: A Longitudinal Analysis of Young Women's Fertility and Educational Advancement
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Ribar, David C. |
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A Longitudinal Analysis of Young Women's Fertility and Educational Advancement Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America, May 1996 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing; Educational Attainment; Women's Education Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study examines the relationship between teenage and young adult women's childbearing and educational advancement using data from the 1979-92 panels of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. It employs the Method of Simulated Moments to estimate discrete-time, discrete-choice models of school advancement and fertility and examines the effects that the frequency, timing and spacing of births have on young women's subsequent decisions to remain in, leave, and re-enter school. The econometric framework accounts for serial correlation in unobserved determinants of schooling as well as cross-equation correlations in the unobserved determinants of schooling and fertility The empirical analysis reveals that once these forms of correlation are taken into account, the estimated educational consequences of fertility are either substantially reduced or eliminated |
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Ribar, David C. "A Longitudinal Analysis of Young Women's Fertility and Educational Advancement." Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America, May 1996. |