Teen Fertility and Siblings’ Outcomes

Abstract

S. teen birth rates remain high relative to other industrialized countries. Despite extensive literature on teen mothers and their children, almost no research examines the effects of teen fertility on the rest of the mother's family. I address this gap, finding that teen birth negatively affects mothers' younger siblings. Using several matched control methods, I find that sisters of new teenage mothers experience a 3.8 percentage-point decrease in test scores, a 7.6 percentage-point increase in grade repetition, and a 9.3 percentage-point increase high school dropout, while brothers experience a 9.2 This open access article is distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) and is freely available online at: http://jhr.uwpress.org

Family ties and child obesity in Italy

“…This literature has focused on the effects of sibling health status on educational outcomes (Black et al, 2017;Fletcher et al, 2012), on the effect of early health shocks on child human capital formation (Yi et al, 2015), on the effects of teen motherhood on their siblings' short and medium term human capital development (Heissel, 2017(Heissel, , 2019, on the effect of siblings on educational choices and early career earnings (Dustan, 2018;Joensen & Nielsen, 2018;Nicoletti & Rabe, 2019;Qureshi, 2018), and on the effects of health shocks to individuals on their family members consumption of preventive care (Fadlon & Nielsen, 2019).…”