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Title: Employment Opportunity, Wages and Adolescent Premarital Childbearing
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Rich, Lauren M. |
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Employment Opportunity, Wages and Adolescent Premarital Childbearing Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Child Labor; Childbearing, Adolescent; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Contraception; Disadvantaged, Economically; Employment, Youth; Endogeneity; Labor Economics; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Socioeconomic Factors; Teenagers; Work History Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Policy analysts have increasingly suggested that teen pregnancy prevention efforts need to address the underlying socioeconomic conditions, e.g., low employment opportunity which may "encourage" early childbearing among disadvantaged youth. To investigate the potential for such approaches, this study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to estimate the impact of total weeks of employment prior to time t, and expected wage at time t, on the probability that a teenager bears a child between periods t and t+l. A discrete time hazard model, which allows for both time-varying and time-invariant factors to influence a teen's childbearing decision, is employed. In addition, to deal with the potential endogeneity of previous employment this variable is instrumented with state and local unemployment rates, local industrial structure, and state variation in child labor laws. Results of the analysis indicate that young women residing in areas with greater employment opportunities may be less likely to give birth as teenagers. |
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Rich, Lauren M. "Employment Opportunity, Wages and Adolescent Premarital Childbearing." Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995. |