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How Does Adolescent Fertility Affect the Human Capital and Wages of Young Women?


  Author: Daniel Kliepenger, Shelley Lundberg, Robert Plotnick
Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty
Publication:
Document Date:                  September 01, 1997
Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Motherhood
Related Categories:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Pregnancy
Education > Drop-Out
Education > Educational Attainment
Family Economics > Economic Hardship
Family Economics > Employment/Unemployment
Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Children
Parenthood/Childrearing > Unwed Mothers
Public Policy > Family
 

This paper investigates the impact of teenage childbearing on the educational attainment, employment, and income of young women.  It finds that early fertility has a negative effect on outcomes in these areas and suggests that policies that reduce teenage childbearing would be beneficial to young mothers and their children.

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