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We study the effect of adolescent motherhood on education and labor outcomes among 20-24 year old women in Chile. We identify causal effects of motherhood with family fixed effects using a large data set covering the 1990-2011 period. Teen motherhood has negative effects on education and labor...
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The proportions of girls marrying or having children before the age of 18 have been declining in Uganda according to data from the latest publicly available Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) implemented in 2011. Yet despite progress, more than one third of girls still marry as children, and...
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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 …
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mothers and their children. Cross-sectional studies that estimate relationships between maternal age at first birth and … consequences of early fertility …
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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 …
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Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage … repealed the odds that teens would become new mothers increased, with a larger increase among young black teens. When we … CLM on older women becoming mothers. To the extent that they reduce teen births CLM laws are socially desirable and worthy …
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Uganda with funding from Sweden and the World Bank. These studies underscore important lessons learned and offer suggestions …
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. Young mothers face a particularly complex set of life circumstances by virtue of entering parenthood outside the normative … mothers. While the main programs supporting young mothers in Australia focus on education and employment support, we find that … young mothers prioritise mothering and focus on the importance of providing full-time care to their children. We find …
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