Impacto de la maternidad adolescente en los logros educativos

Mariana Gerstenblüth (), Zuleika Ferre, Maximo Rossi and Patricia Triunfo ()

No 509, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Department of Economics - dECON

Abstract: Based on the Survey on Social and Biological Reproduction of the Uruguayan Population: an approximation to gender and generations car- ried out by the Gender and Generations project in 2004, we study the e¤ect of teenage childbearing on educational outcomes of mothers. The predicted results show that women in the sample present a 58% probability of completing 9 or more years of formal education. Taking mothers education as a proxy of parental atmosphere, we .?nd that daughters of those mothers that completed at least secondary education have 21% more probability of completing 9 or more years of education. At the same time, early motherhood of the women?s mother and the number of siblings reduces the probability of educational achievements, as these variables indicate a low socioeconomic status of the household. As regards to the early motherhood of the women in the sample, it reduces the probability of completing 9 or more years of education by approximately 40%.

Keywords: teenage pregnancy; education; propensity score (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2009-04
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