Teen Fertility and Gender Inequality in Education
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Teen Fertility and Gender Inequality in Education
Previous studies in developed countries have found a micro-level association between teenage fertility and girls’ educational attainment but researchers still debate the policy implications of these associations. First, are these associations causal? Second, are they substantively important enough that policy efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy among teens would pay off in terms of narrowing...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demographic Research
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1435-9871
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2004.11.11