Adult outcomes for children of teenage mothers

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-117

  Francesconi, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endowment heterogeneity; Identification issues; Intergenerational processes; Sibling estimators; Teenage pregnancy

Indexed keywords

BIRTH INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ECONOMETRICS; FAMILY STRUCTURE; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG POPULATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 43449092209     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: 14679442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00526.x     Document Type: Article

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