Twentieth-Century Change in the Educational Costs of Adolescent Childbearing

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ID2229978
AuthorsJ D Wolfe (0000-0001-7392-6937, University of Alabama at Birmingham), M B Thomeer (0000-0003-2777-2628, University of Alabama at Birmingham), Shawn Bauldry (0000-0002-6679-3125, Purdue University West Lafayette)
Year2024
Volume129
Issue6
Pages1763-1791
Publication date2024-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/729819
PMID38912089
OpenAlexW4391467275
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited69

Although studies observe heterogeneity in the effects of adolescent childbearing on schooling, little is currently known about when this pattern emerged or how it changed across cohorts of women who lived in distinct periods of US history. This article identifies the potential origins of effect heterogeneity in the educational costs of adolescent childbearing and extends recent advances in causal inference to detect group differences in heterogeneity. The analysis applies this approach to four cohorts of women from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) who entered adolescence before, during, and after expansive economic, demographic, and cultural change in the twentieth century. Results suggest that the educational costs of adolescent childbearing, as well as heterogeneity in those costs, increased for women in the latter half of the twentieth century, especially for millennial women born 1980-84. The authors conclude that midcentury social changes fundamentally altered the educational costs of adolescent childbearing for women

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