The effect of education on teenage fertility: causal evidence for Argentina

Alzúa, María Laura; Velázquez, Cecilia

doi:10.1186/s40176-017-0100-8

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“…Evidence points to an inverse correlation between implementation of these reforms and adolescent pregnancy rates, with the effect being stronger among poor urban adolescents in Chile. In Argentina, where a reform increased compulsory years of schooling from 7 to 10, a study found a strong correlation between additional school years and increased enrolment rates following the new policy and reduced adolescent pregnancy rates ( 29 ).…”

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Adolescent pregnancy, public policies, and targeted programs in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review

Ribas

2021

Revista Panamericana De Salud Pública

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Objective. To present and assess evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) on public policies and targeted programs which may have influenced variations in adolescent pregnancy or its proximate determinants, and to identify knowledge gaps that require further research. Methods. A systematic review was performed based on the 2015 PRISMA protocol. Five databases were searched for articles published between 2000 and 2019 that refer to at least one country in LAC. The outcomes of interest were adolescent pregnancy or its proximate determinants (sexual behavior, contraceptive use, and/ or abortion). Only studies exploring correlations between the outcomes of interest and public policies or targeted programs were included in the analysis. Results. Thirty studies spanning 14 countries were selected for analysis. Twenty-three of these (77%) were not included in prior systematic reviews on adolescent pregnancy. Public policies related to conditional cash transfers and compulsory education have the strongest evidence of correlation with adolescent pregnancy prevention. Emerging research points to the potential positive impact of life-skills programs for adolescents. Evidence from public health policies and programs was limited. Conclusions. Further research which incorporates an intersectional analysis is needed to better understand which policies and programs could lead to steeper declines in adolescent pregnancy in the region. Evidence on effects of expanded family planning services and secondary school attainment upon adolescent pregnancy are particularly absent.

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Adolescent pregnancy, public policies, and targeted programs in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review

Ribas

2021

Revista Panamericana De Salud Pública

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“…Studies in Argentina have used similar empirical strategies. For example, Alzúa, Gasparini, and Haimovich (2015) and Alzúa and Velázquez (2017) employ an education reform law (Ley de Reforma Educativa) as an instrumental variable to analyze the effect of education on the labor market and fertility rate, respectively. Here, as in the above studies, the temporal variability of legislation is exploited.…”

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Trade-off between obesity and tobacco consumption

Garbero¹,

Lara

Serio

2019

Eco

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Recent evidence suggests that obesity and tobacco prevalence rates are moving in the opposite direction. This study examines the causal relationship between these variables in Argentina. The effects of tobacco consumption on body weight are estimated by using instrumental variables to address endogeneity problems. To this end, the entry into force of provincial laws on tobacco control at different times are exploited. Our results show that smoking has a negative impact on three weight measures (BMI, weight in kilograms, obesity rate). This ﬁnding suggests that anti-smoking measures should be complemented with nutritional controls and the promotion of physical exercise.

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“…it is possible to demonstrate that adolescent pregnancies perpetuate intergenerational poverty [8,9]; This is due to the fact that there is an increase in school dropouts among women who have pregnancies during adolescence [7]. Finally, multiple studies evaluated the effects of the interventions carried out in the adolescent population, in the reduction of the birth rate in women between 15 and 19 years of age, through which it was identified that those interventions with the greatest impact were those designed to improve the socioeconomic level of adolescents and those who encourage permanence in educational institutions and encourage a higher level of schooling [15][16][17][18][19]. Despite the fact that the impact of individual educational interventions was evaluated, the results were not conclusive, nor did they show an impact on the birth rate in adolescents.…”

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Teenage Pregnancy, what is its Impact on Latin America?

Martinez

2023

OAJBS

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Adolescent pregnancy in the world has an incidence rate of 41 per thousand women between 15 and 19 years of age; however, in the Latin American and Caribbean region these figures are higher, reaching at least 67 per thousand women and unlike the global trend, it is expected that in the region this value will continue to rise. Through various studies it has been identified that the risk factors associated with the occurrence of this event are mainly low schooling and low socioeconomic level, early initiation of sexual relations, among others. Additionally, it has been established that adolescent pregnancy brings with it risks to the health of both the woman and the newborn, but even more worrisome it leads to the perpetuation of poverty, to a decrease in schooling in the long term and therefore to a lower income expectation among women who have children before the age of 20. Individual interventions have not been able to demonstrate significant changes in the decrease in adolescent birth rates, since as it is a multifactorial problem, it must be addressed with multidisciplinary interventions. Through this review, it is intended to expand all the aspects and nuances associated with this problem and to clarify which are the most effective mechanisms to generate an impact on the reduction of adolescent births. Since it is a multifactorial problem, it must be addressed with multidisciplinary interventions. Through this review, it is intended to expand all the aspects and nuances associated with this problem and to clarify which are the most effective mechanisms to generate an impact on the reduction of adolescent births. Since it is a multifactorial problem, it must be addressed with multidisciplinary interventions. Through this review, it is intended to expand all the aspects and nuances associated with this problem and to clarify which are the most effective mechanisms to generate an impact on the reduction of adolescent births.

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The effect of education on teenage fertility: causal evidence for Argentina

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

Adolescent pregnancy, public policies, and targeted programs in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review

Adolescent pregnancy, public policies, and targeted programs in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review

Trade-off between obesity and tobacco consumption

Teenage Pregnancy, what is its Impact on Latin America?

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