%0 Report
        %A Berthelon, Matias
%A Kruger, Diana
        %T The Impact of Adolescent Motherhood on Education in Chile
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8072
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8072
        %X We analyze the effect of having a child in adolescence on high school completion, educational attainment, and college enrollment in a developing country setting using nine repeated rounds of Chilean household surveys that span the 1990–2009 period. We control for selection bias and household unobservables of teen motherhood with two approaches: different estimation methods – propensity score matching and family fixed effects for a large sub-sample of sisters – and three different samples. Results reveal that adolescent motherhood reduces the probability of high school completion by between 18 to 37 percent. Furthermore, effects are heterogeneous across education groups: teen motherhood has larger negative effects on high school completion and years of schooling among poor and low-education households. Our results imply that policies aimed at reducing early childbearing will have important short-term effects on young women's education outcomes.
        %K adolescent motherhood
%K teen pregnancy
%K education
%K youth
%K high school
%K Chile