@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp6995, author={Paniagua, Maria Navarro and Walker, Ian}, title={The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of their Children: Evidence for Europe}, year={2012}, month={Nov}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={6995}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6995}, abstract={This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity framework to isolate the transmission from teen motherhood per se. Our findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves.}, keywords={teenage motherhood;education;fertility;children;instrumental variables;compulsory schooling laws}, }