teenage childbearing on health behaviors by comparing female siblings in both the teenage sample and a sample of adults … of the effects of teenage childbearing on health behaviors, the results using these US samples and research designs … suggest that teenage childbearing has negligible effects on several measures of unhealthy behaviors for mothers and may be …

for mothers. While several studies have examined the effects on labor market and health outcomes, little research to date … has considered effects on mental health and substance use. I use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth and … address the endogeneity of fertility decisions, I use two natural experiments that exogenously increase the number of children …