Teenage parenthood, circumstances and educational mobility of children

Giovanni Bernardo, Giuseppe Cinquegrana and Giovanni Fosco

Discussion Papers from Dipartimento di Economia e Management (DEM), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Abstract: This paper focuses on teenage childbearing, a phenomenon that is often linked to poverty, restricted education, and cultural and social norms. Teenage parenthood can hinder educational goals, resulting in low income and social exclusion. Through an examination of Italian census data, this paper analyzes the effects of unequal opportunities caused by teenage childbearing of parents on intergenerational educational mobility, finding that increasing parents' age at the conception of the first child is associated with higher upward educational mobility among their children. As a consequence, children whose parents had experienced early pregnancies between the ages of 12 and 18 have low upward mobility with respect to their peers and are unable to overcome their parents' educational attainment.

Keywords: Intergenerational mobility; Educational attainment; Rank-Rank coefficient; Teenage childbearing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C43 I24 J62 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-03-01
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Note: ISSN 2039-1854
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