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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany: Patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina - 2014
aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368339
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Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany: Patterns and Developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377275
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Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany: Patterns and Developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398642
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Efectos educativos de la fecundidad adolescente: Evidencia causal a partir de la legalización del aborto en Uruguay
Alzúa, María Laura; Velázquez, Cecilia - 2018
Cuba, Guyana and Mexico City - where abortion on demand is legal. However, the supply of legal abortion services faced … protects the right to exercise 'conscientious objection' with respect to abortion. Thus, the supply of abortion services varied … estimating the causal effect of teenage fertility on education using an Instrumental Variables approach. Local abortion rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011854015
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Universal preschool programs and long-term child outcomes: A systematic review
Dietrichson, Jens; Kristiansen, Ida Lykke; Nielsen, … - 2018
What are the long-term effects of universal preschool programs on child outcomes? We review 26 studies using natural experiments to estimate the effects of universal preschool programs for children aged 0-6 years on child outcomes measured from third grade to adulthood. Studies comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039300
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A multi-sensory tutoring program for students at-risk of reading difficulties: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Bøg, Martin; Dietrichson, Jens; Aldenius, Anna - 2019
Although reading is a fundamental skill, many students leave school without being proficient readers. We examine a literacy program targeting students most at-risk of reading difficulties in kindergarten and first grade. The program includes multi-sensory learning methods, which focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039314
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Understanding Teenage Fertility, Cohabitation, and Marriage: The Case of Peru
Favara, Marta; Lavado, Pablo; Sanchez, Alan - 2016
In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While the present analysis does not intend to establish causality, the longitudinal nature of the data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559698
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The effect of education on teenage fertility: Causal evidence for Argentina
Alzúa, María Laura; Velázquez, Cecilia - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 7, pp. 1-28
This is the first study exploring the causal effect of education on teenage fertility in Argentina. We exploit an exogenous variation in education from the staggered implementation of the 1993 reform, which increased compulsory schooling from 7 to 10 years. We find a negative overall impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012124
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The effects of increased compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Scharle, Ágota - 2018
This paper examines the effects that an increase in compulsory school-leaving (CSL) age has on the teenage fertility (both motherhood and pregnancy) of Roma women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority in Hungary. We use a regression discontinuity design identification strategy based on exact date of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028723
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Teenage motherhood, education, and labor market outcomes of the mother: Evidence from Brazilian data
Narita, Renata; Montoya Diaz, Maria Dolores - In: EconomiA 17 (2016) 2, pp. 238-252
This paper studies the effects of teenage motherhood on later educational and labor market achievement of the mothers. We construct a pseudo panel from the Brazilian Household Surveys (the 1992–2004 PNADs) and from the Health Ministry data (DATASUS 1981–1992) by state of birth and cohort. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011858465