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Teenage mothers' health across different life stages

Kalb, Guyonne; Vu, Ha - 2021

Many women who give birth during their teenage years face lifetime disadvantages in health, social and economic domains. To develop effective policies to support these teenage mothers, it is important to understand how the disadvantage evolves over time to target the timing of any interventions....

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Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter

Conti, Gabriella; Poupakis, Stavros; Ekamper, Peter; … - 2021

This paper investigates impacts, mechanisms and selection effects of prenatal exposure to multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in the Western Netherlands (November 1944 - May 1945), pushing...

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When a Strike Strikes Twice : Massive Student Mobilizations and Teenage Pregnancy in Chile

Celhay, Pablo - 2020

We empirically study the impact of massive and sudden school closures on teenage pregnancy, following the 2011 …

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Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health : evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter

Conti, Gabriella; Poupakis, Stavros; Ekamper, Peter; … - 2021

This paper investigates impacts, mechanisms and selection eﬀects of prenatal exposure to multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in the Western Netherlands (November 1944 - May 1945),...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665047

Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life

Aizer, Anna; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021

Women who give birth as teens have worse subsequent educational and labor market outcomes than women who have first births at older ages. However, previous research has attributed much of these effects to selection rather than a causal effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still...

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On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Non Education Outcomes : The Case of Teenage Pregnancy

Cortes, Darwin F.; Gallego, Juan Miguel; Maldonado, Dario - 2021

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern … education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage … pregnancy if it does not condition on school performance. Then, using an original data base, we estimate the causal impact on …

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Youth Risk-Taking Behavior in Brazil : Drug Use and Teenage Pregnancies

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Verner, Dorte - 2021

aim of this paper is to study interactions among different types of risk-taking behavior by youth, namely drug use and … teenage pregnancy. We check the impact of factors such as exposure to mass media, the existence of support networks, self …

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Teenage mother's health across different life stages

Kalb, Guyonne; Vu, Ha - 2021

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Grandparents, moms, or dads? why children of teen mothers do worse in life

Aizer, Anna; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020

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Are you (not) expecting? : the unforeseen benefits of job training on teenage pregnancy

Novella, Rafael; Ripani, Laura - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 19, pp. 1-18

Teenage pregnancy in the Dominican Republic represents a persistent development challenge. This paper uses data from a … randomized impact evaluation of the youth training program Juventud y Empleo, which includes soft skills training, to examine its … impact on teenage pregnancy. We find that the program reduces the probability of teenage pregnancy by 8 percentage points …

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