The long-run labour market consequences of teenage motherhood in Britain |
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Authors: | Chevalier Arnaud Viitanen Tarja K Viitanen Tarja K |
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Institution: | (1) Institute for the Study of Social Change, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (Fax: +353-1-716-4616; e-mail: {arnaud.chevalier, tarja.viitanen}@ucd.ie) and Centre for the Economic of Education, LSE, IE;(2) Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K., GB |
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Abstract: | Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However, the
decisions to be a teenage mother, to quit school, and be less attached to the labour market might all stem from some personal
or family characteristics.
Using the National Child Development Study (NCDS), we find that in Britain teenage childbearing decreases the probability
of post-16 schooling by 12–24%. Employment experience is reduced by up to three years, and the adult pay differential ranges
from 5% to 22%. The negative impact of teen motherhood on various adult outcomes is not only due to some pre-motherhood characteristics;
hence policies aiming to encourage return to school and participation in the labour market may be an efficient way to reduce
the long-term consequences of teenage pregnancy.
Received: 10 October 2000/Accepted: 3 April 2002
All correspondence to Arnaud Chevalier. We are indebted to Martyn Andrews, Colm Harmon, Gauthier Lanot, Ian Walker and to
the participants at the EEEG annual meeting (Southampton, 2000) and seminars at Keele University, LSE and Warwick University
for their comments that greatly improved earlier versions of this paper. We also thank two anonymous referees and Christoph
Schmidt for their insightful comments. All remaining errors are ours. The data was supplied by the Economic and Research Council's
Data Archive at the University of Essex and are used with permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
Responsible editor: Christoph M. Schmidt. |
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Keywords: | JEL classification: I200 J130 J310 |
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