Teenage Childbearing and Educational Attainment in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10797488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian M Timaeus (0000-0001-8011-4806, Honorary Professor and Professor of Demography, Department of Population Health London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Keppel Street London United Kingdom WC1E 7HT, corresponding author), Tom A Moultrie (0000-0003-1949-535X, Professor of Demography, Centre for Actuarial Research University of Cape Town) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-160 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Family Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-3665 • E-ISSN: 1728-4465 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2015.00021.x |
| PMID | 26059987 |
| OpenAlex | W2108885605 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 24 |
The relationship between teenage childbearing and school attainment is investigated using nationally representative longitudinal data drawn from South Africa's National Income Dynamics Study. The analysis focuses on the outcomes by 2010 of a panel of 673 young women who were aged 15–18 and childless in 2008. Controlling for other factors, girls who went on to give birth had twice the odds of dropping out of school by 2010 and nearly five times the odds of failing to matriculate. Few girls from households in the highest‐income quintile gave birth. Girls who attended schools in higher‐income areas and were behind at school were much more likely to give birth than those who were in the appropriate grade for their age or were in no‐fee schools. New mothers were much more likely to have re‐enrolled in school by 2010 if they were rural residents, they belonged to relatively well‐off households, or their own mother had attended secondary school. These findings suggest that, in South Africa, interventions that address poor school attainment would also reduce teenage childbearing
Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Geography · Logistic regression · Matriculation · Odds · Population · Psychological intervention · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Teenage pregnancy · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |