Citation
Everett, Bethany G.; Myers, Kyl; Sanders, Jessica N.; & Turok, David K. (2019). Male abortion beneficiaries: Exploring the long-term educational and economic associations of abortion among men who report teen pregnancy. Journal of Adolescent Health.Abstract
Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine if men who report avoiding adolescent fatherhood through a partner's use of abortion have different socioeconomic outcomes than men who report a live birth during adolescence. Methods: We analyzed a subsample of men who reported a pregnancy before the age of 20 years that ended in either a live birth (n = 460) or abortion (n = 137) in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We used propensity score and exact matching of baseline characteristics from Wave I of the study completed in 1994 to compare college completion and income reported in Wave IV of the study completed between 2007 and 2008. Results: Among men who reported a live birth, 5.8% reported graduating from college, and 32.4% had any post–high school education compared with 22.1%, and 58.5% of men who reported a pregnancy ended in abortion. In the multivariable matching analysis, men whose adolescent pregnancies ended in abortion had an increased probability of graduating from college (average treatment effect = 8.6; p < .01) and completing any post–high school education in the treatment group (average treatment effect of the treated = 16.5; p < .001) than men whose adolescent pregnancies ended in live birth. We found a positive association between abortion and personal income only compared to men who did not reside with their child born during adolescence. Conclusion: Women's use of abortion services were associated with educational benefits for men who report teen pregnancies.URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.05.001Keyword(s)
AbortionReference Type
Journal ArticleJournal Title
Journal of Adolescent HealthAuthor(s)
Everett, Bethany G.Myers, Kyl
Sanders, Jessica N.
Turok, David K.