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The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of their Children: Evidence for Europe

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  • Navarro Paniagua, Maria

    (Lancaster University)

  • Walker, Ian

    (Lancaster University)

Abstract

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity framework to isolate the transmission from teen motherhood per se. Our findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves.

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  • Navarro Paniagua, Maria & Walker, Ian, 2012. "The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of their Children: Evidence for Europe," IZA Discussion Papers 6995, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    • Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp6995
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    1. Anna Adamecz-Völgyi & Ágota Scharle, 2020. "Books or babies? The incapacitation effect of schooling on minority women," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 33(4), pages 1219-1261, October.
    2. Eva O. Arceo-Gómez & Raymundo M. Campos-Vázquez, 2014. "Teenage Pregnancy in Mexico: Evolution and Consequences," Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Economía, Instituto de Economía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile., vol. 51(1), pages 109-146, May.

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    Keywords

    teenage motherhood; education; fertility; children; instrumental variables; compulsory schooling laws;
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    JEL classification:

    • I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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