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Title: Teen Fatherhood and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Three Cohorts of Youth
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Covington, Reginald Peters, H. Elizabeth Sabia, Joseph J. Price, Joseph P. |
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Teen Fatherhood and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Three Cohorts of Youth Working Paper, Cornell University, October 2011. Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Department of Economics, Cornell University Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing, Adolescent; College Enrollment; Educational Attainment; Fatherhood; Gender Differences; High School Completion/Graduates; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Propensity Scores; Teenagers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. While a large number of studies have explored the schooling effects of teen motherhood, very few have examined the consequences of teen fatherhood. Using data drawn from two cohorts of youth from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and 1997 (NLSY79 and NLSY97), we examine the relationship between teen parenthood and educational attainment, with careful attention to the role of family- and individual-level unmeasured heterogeneity. We find that teen mothers had a larger schooling penalty than teen fathers in the earlier cohort, but this difference appears to have diminished over time, with men in the NLSY97 cohort having a larger educational penalty than those from the NLSY79 cohort. |
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Covington, Reginald, H. Elizabeth Peters, Joseph J. Sabia and Joseph P. Price. "Teen Fatherhood and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Three Cohorts of Youth." Working Paper, Cornell University, October 2011. |