Yakusheva, Olga; Fletcher, Jason - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 97 (2015) 1, pp. 29-43
We examine peer effects in teen childbearing among close friends, using miscarriages as a natural experiment. We use 775 women from the core sample of Add Health who had a friend with a teen pregnancy. We find a sizable negative treatment effect: a close friend’s teen birth is associated...