全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP15353 Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why children of teen mothers do worse in life

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP15353
	DP15353 Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why children of teen mothers do worse in life
	Anna Aizer; Paul J. Devereux; Kjell G Salvanes
发表日期	2020-10-09
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	Women who give birth as teens have worse subsequent educational and labor market outcomes than women who have first births at older ages. However, previous research has attributed much of these effects to selection rather than a causal effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as their mothers may be less mature, have fewer financial resources when the child is young, and may partner with fathers of lower quality. Using Norwegian register data, we compare outcomes of children of sisters who have first births at different ages. Our evidence suggests that the causal effect of being a child of a teen mother is much smaller than that implied by the cross-sectional differences but that there are probably still significant long-term, adverse consequences, especially for children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes. These effects are particularly large for mothers from higher socio-economic groups. Our data also enable us to examine the effect of age at first birth across a range of maternal ages. Importantly, while we find that child outcomes are worst for those born to teen mothers, outcomes improve with mothers’ age at first birth until mothers are in their mid-20s and then flatten out.
主题	Labour Economics
关键词	Teen childbearing Child outcomes Human capital
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp15353
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/544334
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Anna Aizer,Paul J. Devereux,Kjell G Salvanes. DP15353 Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why children of teen mothers do worse in life. 2020.