Teen Childbearing and Economics: A Short History of a 25-Year Research Love Affair

Societies

Saul D. Hoffman¹ 

[1] Department of Economics, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA; E-Mail

关键词: teen pregnancy;    teen births;    non-marital births;   

DOI  :  10.3390/soc5030646

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Despite its apparent distance from the core topics of economics, economists have been attracted to, and deeply engaged in, research about teen fertility for more than a quarter century. Research has focused on two broad, interrelated issues: the socio-economic consequences of a teen birth and the socio-economic causes of a teen birth. In researching these issues, economists have drawn on and extended basic concepts in economic theory and in applied statistical research. I review those literatures for a non-economist audience and conclude that the research love affair has substantially benefited both parties, although definitive answers to causes and consequences are still elusive.

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