This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. -- teenage motherhood … ; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves …

, and thus of their children, but evidence on this from low- and middle-income countries is scarce. We estimate the effect … Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam and Instrumental Variables (IV) estimation that employs rainfall shocks during mother’s … adolescence as instruments for mother’s nutritional status. We find a positive and significant effect of mother adolescent …

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 …

children of mothers who gave birth in their early twenties …

wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers … time these children spend in enriching home environments. Some of the growth in obesity may be related to determinants of …

phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age … and perform poorer in the math test, with stronger effects for (female) offspring born to very young mothers …

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 …