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Psychosocial competencies and risky behaviours in Peru

Favara, Marta; Sanchez, Alan - In: IZA journal of labor & development 6 (2017) 3, pp. 1-40

We use a unique longitudinal dataset from Peru to investigate the relationship between psychosocial competencies related to the concepts of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and aspirations, and a number of risky behaviours at a crucial transition period between adolescence and early adulthood. First...

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Estimating the effects of teen motherhood in Chile : a family fixed effects approach

Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Eberhard, Juan P. - In: Estudios de economía 44 (2017) 1, pp. 5-32

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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Grandparents, mothers, or fathers? : why children of teen mothers do worse in life

Aizer, Anna; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2019

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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Reducing early pregnancy in low-income countries : a literature review and new evidence

Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Mohamed … - 2017

Many adolescent girls in low-income countries face the challenge of early pregnancy and lifelong dependence upon family … mechanisms determining early pregnancy, namely internal locus of control and economic opportunity. …

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Is Teenage Motherhood Contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2011

There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, are likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...

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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 - 2011

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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Alcohol Consumption and Pregnancies Among Youth : Evidence from a Semi-Parametric Approach

Cintina, Inna - 2012

rather than the influence of substance use. I model the effect of alcohol use on the likelihood of pregnancy among youth … National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I find that alcohol consumption increases the likelihood of pregnancy by 4.7 percentage …

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Determinants of Teenage Pregnancies : The Case of Busia District in Kenya

Were, Maureen - 2007

family life issues reduce probability of teenage pregnancy. Age is positively related to teenage pregnancies, with older … of parental guidance on issues of sexuality and sex education was reinforced by cultural taboos that inhibit such …

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Is Education the Best Contraception? The Case of Declining Teenage Pregnancy in England

Girma, Sourafel; Paton, David - 2014

This paper examines potential explanations for recent declines in teenage pregnancy, in particular, the promotion of … are consistent with LARC promotion having a negative impact on teenage pregnancy rates, the effects are small and … pregnancy …

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Severe Prenatal Shocks and Adolescent Health : Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter

Conti, Gabriella; Poupakis, Stavros; Ekamper, Peter; … - 2022

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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