Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany: Patterns and developments

Kamila Cygan-Rehm and Regina Riphahn

No 05/2014, FAU Discussion Papers in Economics from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute for Economics

Abstract: We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with teenage age and education, with the income of the teenager's family, with migration status, residence in East Germany, and aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility.

Keywords: teenage fertility; abortion; unemployment; East and West Germany; population economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I00 J13 Z18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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