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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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effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative … selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes. These …
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effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … for children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that … negative selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes …
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effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … for children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that … negative selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes …
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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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mothers who gave birth and their newborns. Applying a difference-in-differences approach to register data on all births in … Sweden over two decades, we show that the closures negatively affected the health of mothers, while effects on infant health … were small and insignificant. The adverse effects on mothers are mainly driven by crowding effects at remaining wards …
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Despite the freely and publicly provided health care in Botswana, the proportion of low birth weight infants increased from 8% to 13% during 2000-2007 period. The latter rate was among the highest in the WHO African region and upper middle-income countries and may question the effectiveness of...
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This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children's short and long …-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after the …
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that Muslims are the youngest when becoming pregnant for the first time. Protestants delay first pregnancy, but once being … pregnant, Protestants are more likely to carry their first pregnancy to term rather than having an abortion. With respect to … first pregnancy and its outcome, Catholics surprisingly compare to non‐religious women. Against the background of increasing …
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