Maternal employment and teenage childbearing: Evidence from the PSID

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lopoo, LM
• 署名单位: Syracuse University; Syracuse University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1520-7066
• DOI: 10.1002/pam.20068
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 23-46
• 关键词: family-structure; economic incentives; welfare; neighborhood; transitions; pregnancy; child; work; care

摘要

Over the last 30 years, the tenet of promoting self-sufficiency through work has become one of the primary objectives of many social welfare policies in the United States. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the author asks if a mothers work hours influence her daughters teenage fertility. The findings suggest a negative relationship, with the largest effects for the daughters of mothers who work more than 1,000 hours per year. Results among AFDC recipients suggest that an increase in a mothers work hours from zero to 20 hours per week reduces her daughters probability of a teen birth by 33 percent. (C) 2005 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.