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Adolescent fertility and the educational attainment of young women
D H Klepinger1, S Lundberg, R D Plotnick
1Human Affairs Research Center, Battelle Institute, Seattle, USA.
Family Planning Perspectives
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
Analyses based on a sample of 2,795 women interviewed annually from 1979 through 1991 in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth show that early childbearing lowers the educational attainment of young women. After controls for an extensive set of personal and community characteristics are taken into account, having a child before age 20 significantly reduces schooling attained by almost three years among whites, blacks and Hispanics. Having a child before age 18 has a significant effect only among blacks, reducing years of schooling by 1.2 years.
Keywords:
Adolescent PregnancyAdolescentsAdolescents, FemaleAge FactorsAmericasDemographic FactorsDeveloped CountriesEconomic FactorsEducational Status--womenFamily And HouseholdFamily CharacteristicsFamily RelationshipsFertilityMothersNorth AmericaNorthern AmericaParentsPopulationPopulation CharacteristicsPopulation DynamicsReproductive BehaviorResearch ReportSampling StudiesSocioeconomic FactorsSocioeconomic StatusStudiesSurveysUnited StatesYouth--women