TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Berthelon, Matias
AU  - Kruger, Diana
        TI  - The Impact of Adolescent Motherhood on Education in Chile
        PY  - 2014/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8072
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8072
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - adolescent motherhood
KW  - teen pregnancy
KW  - education
KW  - youth
KW  - high school
KW  - Chile
        ER  -