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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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construct more relevant control groups for teenage mothers. We find evidence that teenage childbearing likely reduces the …
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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 …%. -- Adolescent motherhood ; adolescent pregnancy ; school day reform ; Chile …
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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 …
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