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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w22030 |
来源ID | Working Paper 22030 |
How Does Access to Health Care Affect Teen Fertility and High School Dropout Rates? Evidence from School-based Health Centers | |
Michael F. Lovenheim; Randall Reback; Leigh Wedenoja | |
发表日期 | 2016-02-29 |
出版年 | 2016 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Children from low-income families face persistent barriers to accessing high-quality health care services. Previous research studies have examined the importance of expanding children's health insurance coverage, but there is little prior evidence concerning the impacts of directly expanding primary health care access to this population. We address this gap in the literature by exploring whether teenagers' access to primary health care influences their fertility and educational attainment. We study how the significant expansion of school-based health centers (SBHCs) in the United States since the early 1990's has affected teen fertility and high school dropout rates. Our results indicate that school-based health centers have a negative effect on teen birth rates: adding services equivalent to the average SBHC reduces the 15-18 year old birth rate by 5%. The effects are largest among younger teens and among African Americans and Hispanics. However, primary care health services do not reduce high school dropout rates by very much despite the sizable reductions in teen birth rates |
主题 | Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22030 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579704 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michael F. Lovenheim,Randall Reback,Leigh Wedenoja. How Does Access to Health Care Affect Teen Fertility and High School Dropout Rates? Evidence from School-based Health Centers. 2016. |
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