Comprehensive Child Marriage Research Library
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing before Roe v. Wade
Author(s):
Object Type:
Lang, Kevin; Weinstein, Russell
Feature
Year & Month/Season:
2015
October
Publication/Publisher:
American Economic Journal. Applied Economics
Peer Reviewed
false
PDF Available?
false
Public Link:
ISSN (If Available)
1945-7782
If Journal Article:
ISBN (If Book):
Page Start
169
Page End
197
Volume
7
Issue
N/A
DOI
10.1257/app.20130482
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Students Against Child Marriage's Object Summary:
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Article Abstract (If Available):
Using five cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, we estimate the effect of teen motherhood on education, labor market, and marriage outcomes for teens conceiving from 1940 through 1968. Effects vary by marital status at conception, socioeconomic background, and year. Effects on teens married at conception were limited. However, teen mothers conceiving premaritally obtained less education and had a weaker marriage market. Teen mothers of the 1940s-1950s, affected by subsequent economic and social changes, were disadvantaged in the labor market of the 1970s. In the 1960s, teens for whom motherhood would be costly increasingly avoided pregnancy. (JEL I21, J13, J16, J23, J24, N32 )