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The impact of early childbearing on schooling and cognitive skills among young women in Madagascar
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2015
pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women …'s human capital. We instrument early pregnancy with the young woman's community-level access, and exposure to condoms since … school-pregnancy related dropout is associated with a reduction of 1.1 standard deviations in Math and French test scores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346608
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The Impact of Early Childbearing on Schooling and Cognitive Skills Among Young Women in Madagascar
Herrera, Catalina - 2015
pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women …'s human capital. We instrument early pregnancy with the young woman's community-level access, and exposure to condoms since … school-pregnancy related dropout is associated with a reduction of 1.1 standard deviations in Math and French test scores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014038
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The Impact of Early Childbearing on Schooling and Cognitive Skills among Young Women in Madagascar
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2021
to capture the transition from adolescence to early adulthood, we analyze whether teenage pregnancy contributes to lower … education decisions by instrumenting early pregnancy with the young woman’s access to condoms at the community level, and her …%. This school-pregnancy related dropout is associated with a reduction of 1.1 standard deviations in the Math and French test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213480
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020
The consequences of early motherhood for the offspring are severely understudied, especially in low- and middle-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419034
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026021
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037965
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The impact of teenage childbearing on educational outcomes
Ferre, Zuleika; Gerstenblüth, Mariana; Rossi, Máximo; … - In: The journal of developing areas 47 (2013) 2, pp. 159-174
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Early child bearing and education attainment : evidence from Cameroon
Tabetando, Rayner; Ahidjo, Paul - In: The empirical economics letters : a monthly … 14 (2015) 11, pp. 1133-1139
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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2010 - Rev. version
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
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