A multinomial logit analysis of teenage fertility and high school completion

doi:10.1016/0272-7757(93)90026-D

Economics of Education Review

Volume 12, Issue 2, June 1993, Pages 153-164

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Abstract

This paper examines economic, institutional and sociological antecedents of high school completion and adolescent fertility using data on women from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. A multinomial logit model is estimated in which the dependent variable represents combinations of high school completion and early fertility outcomes. Benefits from various government assistance programs and earnings differences attributable to high school completion are included as potential economic determinants. Of these variables, welfare generosity appears to have a significant positive effect on adolescent childbearing. Other variables including family planning clinic availability, family background, religiousness, physical maturity, race and ethnicity are also found to be important determinants of teenage parenthood and educational attainment.

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A multinomial logit analysis of teenage fertility and high school completion

Abstract

The Effect of Childhood Events and Economic Circumstances on Teen Fertility Out-of-Wedlock and the Receipt of Welfare: Estimates from a Sequential Deci

Fertility-related state laws enacted in 1982

Family Planning Perspectives

NLS Handbook 1990

The Food Stamp Program: History, Description, Issues, and Options

Background Material and Data on Major Programs Within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means

Welfare benefits, economic opportunities, and out-of-wedlock births among black teenage girls

Demography

The Socioeconomic Consequences of Teen Childbearing Reconsidered

Econometric Analysis

Educational achievement and childhood events and circumstances

Demography

The social and economic consequences of teenage childbearing

The impact of social status, family structure, and neighborhood on the fertility of black adolescents

Am. J. Social.

Measuring the Earnings Losses Caused by Teenage Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing