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Although the strong positive correlation between parental educational expectations (PEE) and child academic achievement is widely documented, little is known about PEE's effects on child psychological outcomes and the mechanisms through which it may work. Hence, in this paper, using nationally...
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We analyze the effect of having a child in adolescence on high school completion, educational attainment, and college enrollment in a developing country setting using nine repeated rounds of Chilean household surveys that span the 1990-2009 period. We control for selection bias and household...
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This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … of marriage by age 16 is reduced by 44 percent and the probability of giving birth by age 17 falls by 36 percent. The …
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We study the effect of adolescent motherhood on education and labor outcomes among 20-24 year old women in Chile. We identify causal effects of motherhood with family fixed effects using a large data set covering the 1990-2011 period. Teen motherhood has negative effects on education and labor...
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This paper studies the effects of teenage motherhood on later educational and labor market achievement of the mothers …
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in Chile. Using eight rounds of household surveys, we find that adolescents who were born to teen mothers, those that … live in poor households and in single-mother families, are more likely to have children, while access to full-time high …
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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 …
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This article investigates whether increasing secondary education opportunities influences childbearing among young women in Brazil. We examine a novel dataset reflecting the vast expansion of secondary education in Brazil between 1997 and 2009 and exploit variation in the introduction of schools...
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One of the remedies to selection bias in estimates of the labour market consequences of teenage motherhood has been to estimate within-family effects. A major critique, however, is that heterogeneity within the family might still bias the estimates. Using a large Swedish data set on biological...
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One of the remedies to selection bias in estimates of the labour market consequences of teenage motherhood has been to estimate within-family effects. A major critique, however, is that heterogeneity within the family might still bias the estimates. Using a large Swedish data set on biological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062485