Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource, 78 S.
Series Statement:
Avances de Investigación Bd. 22
DDC:
304.6
Abstract:
Abstract: In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While the present analysis does not intend to establish causality, the longitudinal nature of the data allows us to identify the combination of early circumstances and life changes that induce a higher likelihood of these events. The analysis addresses bias due both to reverse causality and to community characteristics that are usually unobserved and fixed over time, a strategy that is quite unique in studies of developing countries. About 1 out of 5 females (and 1 out of 20 males) in our sample had at least one child by the age of 19, and 80 percent of them were married or cohabiting. Early marriage/cohabitation is indeed intrinsically related to early pregnancy and largely predicted by the same factors. For females specifically, girls from poor households with an absent parent for a prolonge
Note:
Veröffentlichungsversion
,
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
URN:
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-56527-7
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-56527-7
