title: Adolescent fertility and the educational attainment of young women.
abstract: Analyses based on a sample of 2,795 women interviewed annually from 1979 through 1991 in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth show that early childbearing lowers the educational attainment of young women. After controls for an extensive set of personal and community characteristics are taken into account, having a child before age 20 significantly reduces schooling attained by almost three years among whites, blacks and Hispanics. Having a child before age 18 has a significant effect only among blacks, reducing years of schooling by 1.2 years.
authors.affiliation: Human Affairs Research Center, Battelle Institute, Seattle, USA.
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Klepinger
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lundberg
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Plotnick
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004522:Educational Status; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D009035:Mothers / Q000193:education*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States