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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w25165 |
来源ID | Working Paper 25165 |
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 | 2018-10-15 |
出版年 | 2018 |
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 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. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25165 |
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/582838 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Anna Aizer,Paul J. Devereux,Kjell G. Salvanes. Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life. 2018. |
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