Numerous social marketing campaigns exhort parents to talk to their children about sexual abstinence and pregnancy … less strict parents, whose mothers gave birth as teenagers, or whose mothers communicate more about sex are more likely to … from mothers who were themselves teen mothers actually increases the probability a daughter has had sex. -- parental sex …

We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to …

likelihood that adolescent girls become mothers. By increasing the number of hours spent in school, the reform curtails … mothers. We find that access to full-day schools reduces the probability of becoming an adolescent mother among poor families …%. -- Adolescent motherhood ; adolescent pregnancy ; school day reform ; Chile …

. To develop effective policies to support these teenage mothers, it is important to understand how the disadvantage … across different life stages between teenage mothers and other women. Using household panel survey data and fixed … outcomes for teenage mothers. …

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 … for children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that …

pregnancy, and earnings. Unlike much of the recent literature, we are able to separate school starting age from test age effects … positive effect on the probability of teenage pregnancy, but has little effect on educational attainment of boys or girls …