Identifying the Consequences of Teenage Childbearing
43 Pages Posted: 1 Sep 2001
Date Written: August 29, 2001
Abstract
Using miscarriage as an instrument for birth suffers from a censoring problem created by the fact that women wanting the pregnancy to end in an abortion frequently pre-empt an "assigned" miscarriage. I describe evidence that this problem is severe, creates a significant bias in IV estimates, and develop non-parametric estimators to correct for censoring. While simple IV estimates previously suggested teenage childbearing had little effect on high school completion or labor market outcomes later in life, non-parametric IV estimates indicate significant costs of teenage childbearing, particularly for high school aged girls.
JEL Classification: J13, J16, J22
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?
Recommended Papers
-
The Socioeconomic Consequences of Teen Childbearing Reconsidered
-
Teenage Childbearing and its Life Cycle Consequences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment
By V. Joseph Hotz, Seth G. Sanders, ...
-
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing
By Adam B. Ashcraft and Kevin Lang
-
Games Daughters and Parents Play: Teenage Childbearing, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers
By Lingxin Hao, V. Joseph Hotz, ...
-
Understanding the Effects of Early Motherhood in Britain: The Effects on Mothers
By Greg Kaplan, Alissa Goodman, ...
-
Estimating Long-Term Consequences of Teenage Childbearing - an Examination of the Siblings Approach
-
By Jason M. Fletcher and Barbara Wolfe
-
By Joshua D. Angrist and Victor Lavy