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Fast times at Ridgemont High? : the effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage births

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar
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2004-09
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Abstract
Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the

mothers as well as those of their children. We know that low-educated women are more

likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies that increase educational

attainment reduce early fertility? This paper investigates whether increasing mandatory

educational attainment through compulsory schooling legislation encourages women to

delay childbearing. We use variation induced by changes in compulsory schooling laws

in both the United States and Norway to estimate the effect in two very different

institutional environments. We find evidence that increased compulsory schooling does

in fact reduce the incidence of teenage childbearing in both the United States and

Norway, and these results are quite robust to various specification checks. Somewhat

surprisingly, we also find that the magnitude of these effects is quite similar in the two

countries. These results suggest that legislation aimed at improving educational

outcomes may have spillover effects onto the fertility decisions of teenagers.
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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economics
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Discussion paper
2004:25

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