The Educational Consequences of Teen Childbearing

Demography

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2129-2150

  Kane, Jennifer B ^a   Morgan, S Philip ^a   Harris, Kathleen Mullan ^a   Guilkey, David K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

Add Health; Educational attainment; Propensity score matching; Semiparametric maximum likelihood; Teen childbearing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOTHER; NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH; PREGNANCY; PROPENSITY SCORE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MOTHERS; NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PROPENSITY SCORE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889646749     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0238-9     Document Type: Article

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