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HOFFERTH, SANDRA L. REID, LORI LYNN A Cohort/Period Comparison of the Effects of the Timing of Childbearing on Children's Achievement and Behavior Working Paper, Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, September 1999 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 ID Number: 3684 Publisher: Author Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The purpose of this paper...is to examine changes in the consequences of teenage childbearing for children over birth cohorts of young women and historical periods. Are there differences in the effects of timing of childbearing on children's achievements, by whether the first birth occurred in the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s? Are there differences in the effects of timing of childbearing on the schooling of young women who had a first birth in the late 1970s compared with those who bore a child in the late 1980s? This analysis focuses on examining period differences in the consequences of teen childbearig using two data sets, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The NLSY has been used extensively to document the consequences of teen childbearing for young women. It, therefore, represents the "gold standard." However, it represents a single birth cohort of young women. The PSID has also been used to look at teen childbearing (Astone & Upchurch, 1994; Hoffman, Foster & Furstenberg, 1993). While it represents a large number of birth cohorts of women, a smaller number of women compromise each cohort. To the extent that these two data sets provide similar pictures of the same cohort, the PSID can then be used to depict period trends in the effects of teen childbearing on children. Thus, the first goal is to compare the effects of a teen birth on children using both data sets. The second goal is to show the trends over time in the effects of teen childbearing on children's achievement. This will be done by examining the effect on children's achievement and behavior of interacting teen childbearing with period, using the PSID. Search returned 1 items. Search Start: 17:41:13 Search Finish: 17:41:13
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