The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing before Roe v. Wade

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lang, Kevin; Weinstein, Russell
• 署名单位: Boston University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20130482
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 169-197
• 关键词: marriage; pill; fertility; Abortion; POWER

摘要

Using five cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, we estimate the effect of teen motherhood on education, labor market, and marriage outcomes for teens conceiving from 1940 through 1968. Effects vary by marital status at conception, socioeconomic background, and year. Effects on teens married at conception were limited. However, teen mothers conceiving premaritally obtained less education and had a weaker marriage market. Teen mothers of the 1940s-1950s, affected by subsequent economic and social changes, were disadvantaged in the labor market of the 1970s. In the 1960s, teens for whom motherhood would be costly increasingly avoided pregnancy.