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Title: The Socioeconomic Consequences of Teen Childbearing Reconsidered
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Geronimus, Arline T. Korenman, Sanders D. |
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The Socioeconomic Consequences of Teen Childbearing Reconsidered Quarterly Journal of Economics 107,4 (November 1992): 1187-1214. Also: http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/107/4/1187.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Birthweight; Childbearing, Adolescent; Heterogeneity; Household Composition; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Teen childbearing is commonly believed to cause long-term socioeconomic disadvantages for mothers and their children. However, earlier cross-sectional studies may have inadequately accounted for marked differences in family background among women who have first births at different ages. We present new estimates that take into account unmeasured fa background heterogeneity by comparing sisters who timed their first births at different ages. In two of the three sets we examine, sister comparisons suggest that biases from family background heterogeneity are important, and, therefore, that earlier studies may have overstated the consequences of teen childbearing. |
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Geronimus, Arline T. and Sanders D. Korenman. "The Socioeconomic Consequences of Teen Childbearing Reconsidered." Quarterly Journal of Economics 107,4 (November 1992): 1187-1214.
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