title: The effects of teenage fatherhood on young adult outcomes.
abstract: This paper uses national longitudinal data and several new empirical strategies to examine the consequences of teenage fatherhood. The key contribution is to compare economic outcomes of young fathers to young men whose partners experienced a miscarriage rather than a live birth. The results suggest that teenage fatherhood decreases years of schooling and the likelihood of receiving a high school diploma and increases general educational development receipt. Teenage fatherhood also appears to increase early marriage and cohabitation, and has mixed short-term effects on several labor market outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Yale University.
authors.forename: Jason M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Fletcher
authors.forename: Barbara L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Wolfe
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004522:Educational Status; D005220:Fathers / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000266:history; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000208:ethnology / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D012919:Social Behavior / Q000266:history; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors / Q000266:history; D014937:Work / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology