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Title: Short Term Labour Market Consequences of Teenage Pregnancy
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Byrne, Dennis M. Myers, Steven C. King, Randall H. |
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Short Term Labour Market Consequences of Teenage Pregnancy Applied Economics 23,12 (December 1991): 1819-1827. Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00036849100000171 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Chapman & Hall Keyword(s): Abortion; Educational Attainment; Labor Supply; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Teenagers; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. To determine the impact that teenage pregnancy followed by a birth or an abortion has on labor market success, the relationship between teenage pregnancy and education and the effect of pregnancy on wages are examined. The data are from the NLSY, using 1984 and 1985 survey interview data. The results indicate that a live birth has a negative impact on years of education completed, wages, and labor supply. Young women who undergo abortions complete less schooling, on average, than a similarly aged never-pregnant group, leading to lower wages and less attachment to the labor market. While the greatest educational penalty - 1.8 years - is borne by a teenager who has a baby, the 0.53 year penalty faced by the teenager who aborts is also substantial. These women carry a career penalty into their early 20s in the form of lower education, lower wages, and higher wage elasticities. [ABI/INFORM] |
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Byrne, Dennis M., Steven C. Myers and Randall H. King. "Short Term Labour Market Consequences of Teenage Pregnancy." Applied Economics 23,12 (December 1991): 1819-1827.
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