The effects of teenage childbearing on education, physical health, and mental distress: evidence from Mexico
| Autor: | Pinar Mine Gunes, Magda Tsaneva |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
050204 development studies 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Confounding Overweight Mental health Family life Mental distress 0502 economics and business Propensity score matching medicine 050207 economics medicine.symptom Sibling Psychology Set (psychology) Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Demographic Economics. 86:183-206 |
| ISSN: | 2054-0906 2054-0892 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/dem.2020.2 |
| Popis: | This paper estimates the effects of teenage childbearing on education, working, physical and mental health, and physical activity of young girls in Mexico using two waves of the nationally representative Mexican Family Life Survey. We employ a propensity score matching model that accounts for a rich set of baseline covariates that predict teenage childbearing to attempt to reduce the bias due to confounding variables associated with teenage childbearing. The results demonstrate that teenage childbearing is associated with an increase in the probability of being overweight, and reductions in physical activity and the probability of high school completion. Moreover, the results are consistent when we employ sibling fixed effects to account for unobservable family background. |
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