TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cygan-Rehm, Kamila
AU  - Riphahn, Regina T.
        TI  - Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany: Patterns and Developments
        PY  - 2014/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8229
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8229
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - East and West Germany
KW  - unemployment
KW  - abortion
KW  - teenage fertility
KW  - population economics
        ER  -