title: The Effect of Minimum Wages on Adolescent Fertility: A Nationwide Analysis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the effect of minimum wage laws on adolescent birth rates in the United States.
  
  
  METHODS
  I used a difference-in-differences approach and vital statistics data measured quarterly at the state level from 2003 to 2014. All models included state covariates, state and quarter-year fixed effects, and state-specific quarter-year nonlinear time trends, which provided plausibly causal estimates of the effect of minimum wage on adolescent birth rates.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A $1 increase in minimum wage reduces adolescent birth rates by about 2%. The effects are driven by non-Hispanic White and Hispanic adolescents.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nationwide, increasing minimum wages by $1 would likely result in roughly 5000 fewer adolescent births annually.
authors.affiliation: Lindsey Rose Bullinger is with the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington.
authors.forename: Lindsey Rose
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Bullinger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001723:Birth Rate / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000639:trends*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States