TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Blunch, Niels-Hugo
        TI  - A Teenager in Love: Multidimensional Human Capital and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana
        PY  - 2017/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10663
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10663
        AB  - I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal educational attainment, and adult literacy program participation. Pursuing several alternative identification strategies three main results are established. First, I confirm the finding from previous studies that educational attainment is negatively related to teenage pregnancy. Second, however, once Ghanaian and English reading skills are introduced, the association between educational attainment and teenage pregnancy decreases or disappears altogether. Third, for the girls who have not completed primary school, adult literacy program participation is associated with a much lower probability of experiencing a teenage pregnancy.
        KW  - literacy
KW  - human capital
KW  - teenage pregnancy
KW  - adult literacy programs
KW  - Ghana
        ER  -