 The effect of crime on adolescent fertility in ColombiaLaura Victoria Urrego Ospina () and Deici Alejandra Giraldo Hurtado () Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad, 2022, vol. 90, issue 2, 43-76 Abstract: The purpose of this work is to explore the role of violent crime on adolescent fertility choices. It reviews the hypothesis that violent crime shortens life expectancy, which leads individuals to make earlier decisions about childbearing. We model the adolescent fertility rate (AFR) for the 10-14 and 15-19 years age groups separately. We use a panel data set for Colombia at department level from 2003 to 2014, using Arellano-Bond estimator with department fixed effects. The empirical findings suggest that crime has a positive effect on AFR among adolescent aged 15-19, and is statistically significant at 10%. The results of this paper contribute to explaining the connection between crime and fertility choices in Colombia. It provides further insight into the different factors affecting AFR, and stimulates public debate on the need to strengthen the country’s institutions and to ensure access to quality education and the promotion of early interventions programs. Keywords: Family Planning; Inter-temporal decisions; Pregnancy; Criminality; Teenagers; Colombia. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:col:000090:020260 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad from Universidad de los Andes,Facultad de Economía, CEDE Contact information at EDIRC. |
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