The early socioeconomic effects oftTeenage childbearing
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The early socioeconomic effects of teenage childbearing: A propensity score matching approach
A large body of literature has documented a negative correlation between teenage childbearing and teen mothers’ socioeconomic outcomes, yet researchers continue to disagree as to whether the association represents a true causal effect. This article extends the extant literature by employing propensity score matching with a sensitivity analysis using Rosenbaum bounds. The analysis of recent coho...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demographic Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1435-9871
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2010.23.25