Twentieth-Century Change in the Educational Costs of Adolescent Childbearing.

ABSTRACT: Although studies observe heterogeneity in the effects of adolescent childbearing on schooling, little is currently known about when this pattern emerged or how it changed across cohorts of women who lived in distinct periods of US history. This article identifies the potential origins of effect heterogeneity in the educational costs of adolescent childbearing and extends recent advances in causal inference to detect group differences in heterogeneity. The analysis applies this approach to four cohorts of women from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) who entered adolescence before, during, and after expansive economic, demographic, and cultural change in the twentieth century. Results suggest that the educational costs of adolescent childbearing, as well as heterogeneity in those costs

SUBMITTER: Wolfe JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11192242 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature