The impact of teenage motherhood on the education and fertility of their children: Evidence for Europe

Arbeitspapier

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity framework to isolate the transmission from teen motherhood per se. Our findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6995

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Thema: teenage motherhood ; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws ; Jugendliche ; Mütter ; Kinder ; Bildungsniveau ; Fruchtbarkeit ; Schätzung ; EU-Staaten

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Navarro, María ; Walker, Ian
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/67255
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ