The effect of culture on fertility behavior of US teen mothers

Bellido, Héctor ; Marcén Pérez, Miriam (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Molina, José Alberto (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: This paper studies the impact of culture on the fertility behavior of teenage women in the US. To identify this effect, it took an epidemiological approach, exploiting the variations in teenage women's fertility rates by ancestral home country. Using three different databases (the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and the 2000 US Census), the results show that culture has quantitatively important effects on the fertility behavior of teenage women. This finding is robust to alternative specifications, to the introduction of a range of home country variables to proxy culture, and to the measurement of individual characteristics present when teenage women continue with a pregnancy to have a child.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2015.1120881

Año: 2016

Publicado en: FEMINIST ECONOMICS 22, 3 (2016), 101-126
ISSN: 1354-5701

Factor impacto JCR: 1.476 (2016)

Categ. JCR: WOMEN'S STUDIES rank: 10 / 41 = 0.244 (2016) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: ECONOMICS rank: 97 / 347 = 0.28 (2016) - Q2 - T1

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.96 - Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (Q1) - Gender Studies (Q1) - Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (Q1) - Economics and Econometrics (Q2)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/ECO2012-34828

Tipo y forma: Artículo (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Fund. Análisis Económico (Dpto. Análisis Económico)