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Title: The Effect of Teenage Fertility on Young Adult Childbearing
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Ribar, David C. |
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The Effect of Teenage Fertility on Young Adult Childbearing Journal of Population Economics 9,2 (May 1996): 197-218. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/0wumu625thlhcj3a/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Child Care; Childbearing, Adolescent; Children; Economics, Demographic; Fertility; First Birth; Heterogeneity; Mobility; Modeling, Probit Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Numerous studies of fertility behavior find that an early age at first birth increases the rate of subsequent childbearing. Typically, however, these studies do not account for the possibility of serial correlation in the unobserved determinants of fertility. Using 1979-92 individual-level data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper employs the Method of Simulated Moments to estimate panel probit models of annual birth outcomes. The panel probit models account for several alternative sources of serial correlation. Estimation reveals that once serial correlation is taken into account, the subsequent fertility of early childbearing are either statistically eliminated or reversed. |
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Ribar, David C. "The Effect of Teenage Fertility on Young Adult Childbearing." Journal of Population Economics 9,2 (May 1996): 197-218.
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