The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of their Children: Evidence for Europe

María Navarro Paniagua () and Ian Walker ()

No 6995, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity framework to isolate the transmission from teen motherhood per se. Our findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves.

Keywords: teenage motherhood; education; fertility; children; instrumental variables; compulsory schooling laws (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 J13 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58 pages
Date: 2012-11
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