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Intergenerational transmission of teen childbearing in Latin America

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  • Machado, Matilde P.
  • Mora, Ricardo
  • Olivo, Karen

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Using DHS data for six Latin American countries, we estimate the relation between a mother’s teenage childbearing status and that of her daughter. Restricting the estimating sample to mother-daughter matches in the data leads to a large negative selection bias in the estimated effect because missing matches are non-random and affected by the teen childbearing status of mothers and daughters. We deal with this selection bias by developing a Maximum Likelihood estimation using all available data, including incomplete mother-daughter pairs, and allowing missing observations to be endogenous. Our results show that being the daughter of a teen mother increases the chances of being a teen mother between 8.7 and 26.2 percentage points (between 61 and 172%). We conclude that the prevalence of such high intergenerational transmission is at the core of persistent high teenage childbearing rates in Latin America and suggests alternative public policy fixes.

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  • Machado, Matilde P. & Mora, Ricardo & Olivo, Karen, 2023. "Intergenerational transmission of teen childbearing in Latin America," Research Department working papers 1840, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica.
    • Handle: RePEc:dbl:dblwop:1840
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    1. Giovanni Bernardo & Giuseppe Cinquegrana & Giovanni Fosco, 2023. "Teenage parenthood, circumstances and educational mobility of children," Discussion Papers 2023/289, Dipartimento di Economia e Management (DEM), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

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    Cuidado infantil; Mujer; Niñez; Políticas públicas;
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