Basic Profile of Early Childbirth in the Dominican Republic

Male, Chata ; Wodon, Quentin

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: BIRTH;    CHILDBIRTH;    URBAN GIRLS;    LIVE BIRTH;    EARLY PREGNANCY;   

RP-ID  :  105917

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Measures of early childbirth are high inthe Dominican Republic. The share of women ages 18-22 whohad a child before 18 is 20.4 percent and it has notdecreased much over time. The share of girls who had a childbefore the age of 15, at just under two percent, decreased.Early childbirth is associated with lower wealth, lowereducation levels, and employment without cash earnings.These are however only correlations, not necessarily causaleffects. In order to design programs and policies to reducethe prevalence of early childbirth, information is needed onits trend over time, where it is most prevalent in acountry, and what the characteristics of girls giving birthearly are.