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Title: Reevaluating the Costs of Teenage Childbearing: Response to Geronimus and Korenman
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Hoffman, Saul D. Foster, E. Michael Furstenberg, Frank F. Jr. |
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Reevaluating the Costs of Teenage Childbearing: Response to Geronimus and Korenman Demography 30,2 (May 1993): 291-296. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/e17684r567083k0w/ Cohort(s): NLS General, NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing, Adolescent; Data Analysis; Educational Attainment; Family Background and Culture; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Evidence suggests that early childbearing, although not as disastrous an event as portrayed in early studies, still often causes harm to already disadvantaged women. In particular, the evidence to date suggests that educational attainment and economic well-being are reduced by a teen birth, even after controlling for the effects of family background. Although the differences between the conventional estimates and fixed-effect estimates are not always statistically significant, sister comparisons suggest that the effects of teen childbearing have been overstated somewhat in the past. None of the replications, however, provide any evidence that the remaining effects of teen childbearing are negligible, as originally suggested. In constrast to other research that uses various technical variations of sampling and data analysis, analysts argue that it is premature to conclude that the true effects of teenage childbearing are quite small. |
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Hoffman, Saul D., E. Michael Foster and Frank F. Jr. Furstenberg. "Reevaluating the Costs of Teenage Childbearing: Response to Geronimus and Korenman." Demography 30,2 (May 1993): 291-296.
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