Estimating Long-Term Consequences of Teenage Childbearing - an Examination of the Siblings Approach
Swedish Institute for Social Research Working Paper No. 1/2004
34 Pages Posted: 5 Apr 2004
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Estimating Long-Term Consequences of Teenage Childbearing - an Examination of the Siblings Approach
Estimating Long-Term Consequences of Teenage Childbearing - An Examination of the Siblings Approach
Date Written: March 19, 2004
Abstract
One of the remedies to selection bias in estimates of the labour market consequences of teenage motherhood has been to estimate within-family effects. A major critique, however, is that heterogeneity within the family might still bias the estimates. Using a large Swedish data set on biological sisters, I revisit the question of the consequences of teenage motherhood. My contribution is that I am able to control for heterogeneity within the family; I use grade-point-averages at age 16, a pre-motherhood characteristic that differs across sisters within the same family. My findings confirm the presumption that within-family heterogeneity can result in biased within-family estimates. Moreover, my results show that when controlling for school performance, the siblings approach and a traditional cross section yield similar coefficients.
Keywords: Fertility, sibling models
JEL Classification: J13
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