In spite of the rapid fertility transition experienced by most Latin American and Caribbean countries, teenage … fertility has not changed at the same pace or in the same direction. Given that early childbearing is deleterious for both … second half of the 1990s: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and Peru. Teenage fertility trends …

that there is only a small reduction in total fertility over the ages 15-24. The detailed information available on birth …

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility …

be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … mothers are much more likely to repeat one or more grades than other children, and within-household estimates of this … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Another finding of interest is that having a father in the household is …

schooling and labor market outcomes of mothers observed in 1980 and 1990 Census microdata. Reduced-form estimates suggest that … state abortion reforms had a negative impact on teen marriage, teen fertility, and teen out- of-wedlock childbearing. The … teen marriage effects are largest and most precisely estimated for white women while the teen fertility and out …

Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam and Instrumental Variables (IV) estimation that employs rainfall shocks during mother’s … adolescence as instruments for mother’s nutritional status. We find a positive and significant effect of mother adolescent … mainly through a biological channel. Our results also support a significant impact of rainfall shocks during mother’s early …

adolescent female fertility, healthcare spending is reducing maternal and neonatal mortality. The objective of this study is to … examine the efect of adolescent female fertility and healthcare spending on maternal and neonatal mortality in South Asian … analysis. Descriptive statistical method was used for summary. The efect of adolescent female fertility and healthcare spending …

adverse social context for women. It is seen as the cause of lower social and economic achievement for mothers and their … opportunities of the young mothers. Actually, women who gave birth during their adolescence have on average 0.34 more years of …