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Title: Costs and Consequences for the Fathers
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1. Brien, Michael J.
Willis, Robert J.
Costs and Consequences for the Fathers
In: Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy. R.A. Maynard, ed. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1997: pp. 95-143
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Urban Institute
Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Children; Education; Fathers; Fertility; Income; Mothers, Adolescent

This chapter distinguishes two perspectives when assessing the consequences of teen parenting for fathers. The first is the fathers' perspective: What are the consequences for men who father children when they are themselves teenagers? The second is the mothers' perspective: What resources are potentially available from their partners and how do these resources vary with the age at which the women become mothers? Although men who have children as young teens begin their careers by having higher incomes and working more hours than those who delay, men who wait to have a child have higher levels of education, earn more, and work more hours by the time they reach their late 20s. The important question for policy is how much this difference has to do with differences in the characteristics of those who become young fathers and those who do not, and how much with the fact of the birth and whether the man takes responsibility for the child by marrying the mother. The authors pursue answers t o these questions with a series of statistical analyses designed to isolate the various influences at work.
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Brien, Michael J. and Robert J. Willis. "Costs and Consequences for the Fathers" In: Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy. R.A. Maynard, ed. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1997: pp. 95-143