The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing before Roe v. Wade

Kevin Lang and Russell Weinstein

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, vol. 7, issue 4, 169-97

Abstract: Using five cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, we estimate the effect of teen motherhood on education, labor market, and marriage outcomes for teens conceiving from 1940 through 1968. Effects vary by marital status at conception, socioeconomic background, and year. Effects on teens married at conception were limited. However, teen mothers conceiving premaritally obtained less education and had a weaker marriage market. Teen mothers of the 1940s-1950s, affected by subsequent economic and social changes, were disadvantaged in the labor market of the 1970s. In the 1960s, teens for whom motherhood would be costly increasingly avoided pregnancy. (JEL I21, J13, J16, J23, J24, N32)

JEL-codes: I21 J13 J16 J23 J24 N32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
Note: DOI: 10.1257/app.20130482
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