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Morris S R. (2023). Teen Mothers Forgotten: The Gap Between High School and Higher Education. johepal. 4(2), 107-117. doi:10.61186/johepal.4.2.107
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Though the national teen birth rate has declined since 1991, teen motherhood is still associated with educational and lifetime disparities among women who give birth at ages 15-19. Using the Understanding America Study data, I examine teen mothers' educational and financial outcomes with nearest-neighbor matching. My sample is 1,335 mothers with 118 teen mothers, and I define teen mothers as mothers who had children at 15-17 years old. Compared to mothers who did not have children at ages 15-17, I find marginal significance that teen mothers are less likely to graduate high school at 10 percentage points less. More significantly, I find teen mothers to be 32 percentage points less likely to have an associate degree and 25 percentage points less likely to have a Bachelor's Degree, both at the 99% confidence level. Moreover, teen mothers are 15 percent more likely to live in poverty. These results imply a need for more support for teen mothers to complete higher education degrees beyond high school.
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Received: 2023/04/18 | Accepted: 2023/06/10 | Published: 2023/06/30
Received: 2023/04/18 | Accepted: 2023/06/10 | Published: 2023/06/30
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