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Drug use as a risk factor for premarital teen pregnancy and abortion in a National Sample of Young White Women
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Demography (1992) 29 (3): 409–429.
Published: 01 August 1992
...Barbara Mensch; Denise B. Kandel Abstract The relationship between adolescent drug use and premarital teen pregnancy and abortion as a pregnancy outcome among sexually active women is investigated in a sample of white women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Event history analysis...
View articletitled, Drug use as a risk factor for premarital <span class="search-highlight">teen</span> <span class="search-highlight">pregnancy</span> and abortion in a National Sample of Young White Women
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The Effect(s) of Teen Pregnancy: Reconciling Theory, Methods, and Findings
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 85–116.
Published: 11 January 2016
... in the population. Analyses of the Child and Young Adult Cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth ( N = 3,661) confirm that teen pregnancy has negative effects on most women’s attainment and earnings. More striking, however, is that effects on college completion and early earnings vary considerably...
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View articletitled, The Effect(s) of <span class="search-highlight">Teen</span> <span class="search-highlight">Pregnancy</span>: Reconciling Theory, Methods, and Findings
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Does Parental Consent for Birth Control Affect Underage Pregnancy Rates? The Case of Texas
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2105–2128.
Published: 14 June 2013
... score–weighted regressions. The evidence suggests that the parental consent mandate led to a large decrease in attendance at family planning clinics among teens but did not lead to an increase in underage pregnancies. In Table 4 , we report the relative differences (DDs) for a number of alternative...
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Heterogeneous Consequences of Teenage Childbearing
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2147–2168.
Published: 11 November 2019
... to estimate the effect of teen childbearing among those who become pregnant. This strategy cannot estimate the average effect among all teens in the United States. However, the effect among those who become pregnant is more policy-relevant given that any effort to curb teen pregnancy would have effects among...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 707–729.
Published: 01 June 2023
... motherhood among those that expressed the most negative preparenthood attitudes toward teen pregnancy, and better mental health among teen mothers who expressed the most positive attitudes. Studies have also investigated heterogeneity in the effects of teen motherhood on mental health across countries...
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View articletitled, Does Anyone Suffer From Teenage Motherhood? Mental Health Effects of <span class="search-highlight">Teen</span> Motherhood in Great Britain Are Small and Homogeneous
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Prevalence and Risk Factors for Early Motherhood Among Low-Income, Maltreated, and Foster Youth
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 261–284.
Published: 05 December 2018
.... children, especially those from low-income and black families. Second, elevated risk of teen pregnancy and birth have been documented among youth involved with CPS, both those who remain in home and those who experience foster care (Brännström et al. 2015 ; Carpenter et al. 2001 ; Doyle 2007...
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Factors in the Resolution of Adolescent Premarital Pregnancies
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Demography (1990) 27 (2): 207–218.
Published: 01 May 1990
... to Poverty, Teen Pregnancy, and Family Formation . Washington, DC : Children's Defense Fund Kobrin F. E. , & Waite L. J. ( 1984 ). Effects of Childhood Family Structure on the Transition to Marriage . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 46 , 807 – 816 . 10.2307/352528...
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Contraceptive use patterns across teens’ sexual relationships: The role of relationships, partners, and sexual histories
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Demography (2007) 44 (3): 603–621.
Published: 01 August 2007
... . 10.1111/j.1471-6402.2004.00124.x Brindis C. , Pagliaro S. , & Davis L. ( 2000 ). Protection as Prevention: Contraception for Sexually Active Teens . Washington, DC : National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy . Carver K. , Joyner K. , & Udry J.R. ( 2003...
View articletitled, Contraceptive use patterns across <span class="search-highlight">teens</span>’ sexual relationships: The role of relationships, partners, and sexual histories
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Impact of Free/Subsidized Secondary School Education on the Likelihood of Teenage Motherhood
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1401–1421.
Published: 01 August 2021
... , 409 – 437 . Caldwell J. C. , Reddy P. H. , & Caldwell P. ( 1983 ). The causes of marriage change in South India . Population Studies , 37 , 343 – 361 . Cherry A. L. , Byers L. , & Dillon M. ( 2009 ). A global perspective on teen pregnancy...
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Intergenerational patterns of teenage fertility
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 February 1992
... of Teen Childbearers.” . In Sandra L. Hofferth , & Cheryl D. Hayes (Eds.), Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing (pp. 172 – 206 ). Washington, DC : National Academy Press . Hofferth , Sandra L. , Kahn , Joan R. , & Baldwin , Wendy...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1767–1789.
Published: 01 December 2023
... can be as disruptive to girls as those involving parents. Although family structure and family stability are correlates of teen pregnancy, research has focused more on parents and their romantic partners than on extended family and nonrelatives. Beginning with single changes in family structure...
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View articletitled, Household Instability and Girls’ <span class="search-highlight">Teen</span> Childbearing
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The Educational Consequences of Teen Childbearing
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2129–2150.
Published: 27 September 2013
.... A. ( 2008 ). The study, the context, and the findings in brief . In S. D. Hoffman , & R. A. Maynard (Eds.), Kids having kids: Economic costs and social consequences teen pregnancy (pp. 1 – 24 ). Washington DC : Urban Institute Press . Holmlund H. ( 2005 ). Estimating long...
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Maternal Age and Child Development
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2229–2255.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., the three- to five-year increase in the age-at-birth gaps between high- and low-SES women over the last several decades has important implications for the schooling attainment gap between high- and low-SES children. Reductions in teen pregnancy have not shrunk the SES-based achievement gap for children...
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Employment and the Use of Birth Control by Sexually Active Single Hispanic, Black, and White Women
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 593–602.
Published: 01 November 1994
... Luker K. ( 1991 ). Dubious Conceptions: The Controversy over Teen Pregnancy . The American Prospect , (Spring) , 73 – 83 . Marcum J.P. , & Bean F.D. ( 1976 ). Minority Group Status as a Factor in the Relationship between Mobility and Fertility: The Mexican American Case...
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Early Childbearing, School Attainment, and Cognitive Skills: Evidence From Madagascar
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 643–668.
Published: 21 March 2018
... in communities where teen pregnancies are the highest or where the population is more inclined to use contraceptives (Molyneaux and Gertler 2000 ; Pitt et al. 1993 ; Pörtner et al. 2011 ). We lack detailed information on the administrative decision that resulted in whether and when our sample communities...
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Community-Wide Job Loss and Teenage Fertility: Evidence From North Carolina
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2151–2171.
Published: 25 July 2013
... ). Assuming a miscarriage rate of 12 %, then the implied pregnancy rate is 84.2 (based on a birthrate of 74.1 births per 1,000 women and pregnancy rate of 74.1 / (100 – .12), or 84.2 %). A miscarriage rate of 12 % would thus translate into 10.1 losses per 1,000 black teens (82.6 – 74.1); for miscarriage rate...
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Non-Heterosexuality, Relationships, and Young Women’s Contraceptive Behavior
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 887–909.
Published: 02 May 2017
... to other industrialized countries (Finer and Zolna 2013 ; National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy 2015 ). Unintended pregnancy is associated with health and social outcomes, including maternal well-being, quality of parent-child relationships, and resources available to children (Barber...
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Black-White Differences in Sex and Contraceptive Use Among Young Women
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1399–1428.
Published: 13 September 2016
... women (at age 20.9 versus age 24.1) and have more children than white women (2.4 versus 2.2) (Martinez et al. 2012 ). Although teen pregnancy rates have declined dramatically among all racial and ethnic groups in the United States since their peak in the early 1990s (Kost and Henshaw 2012 ), black...
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Composition and decomposition in nonmarital fertility
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 209–210.
Published: 01 February 2009
... births noted by Ermisch (see also Wu, Bumpass, and Musick 2001). Although GSS defended the exclusion of teens by arguing that in many states, teens could not legally marry, this ignores a key behavioral endogeneity whether and for whom a teen pregnancy is taken to term an issue of particular relevance...
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Neighborhood Context and the Transition to Sexual Activity among Young Black Women
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 603–614.
Published: 01 November 1994
... frequency, nonmarital pregnancy risk, childbearing, and school leaving (Billy, Brewster, and Grady 1994; Brooks-Gunn et al. 1993; Crane 1991; Hogan and Kitagawa 1985). Most prior multilevel work addressing black teens, however, tests a limited number of neighborhood characteristics; no investigator has made...
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