The Educational Consequences of Teen Childbearing.
A huge literature shows that teen mothers face a variety of detriments across the life course, including truncated educational attainment. To what extent is this association causal? The estimated effects of teen motherhood on schooling vary widely, ranging from no discernible difference to 2.6 fewer...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 50; no. 6; pp. 2129 - 2151 |
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