The Heterogeneous Treatment Effect of Teenage Childbearing on Educational Attainment

Citation

Park, Kiwoong (2019). The Heterogeneous Treatment Effect of Teenage Childbearing on Educational Attainment. Population Association of America annual meeting. Austin, TX.

Abstract

To examine how adolescent women differently respond to teenage childbearing from the causal perspective, this study employs the smoothing-differencing (SD) method, which is a propensity score analysis developed to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects (Xie, Brand, and Jann 2012). By using the SD method with the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), this study not only addresses the selection bias from pre-treatment heterogeneity, but also appropriately analyzes the heterogeneous treatment effects of teenage childbearing on years of education. The heterogeneity pattern of teenage childbearing is presented by taking the differences in the years of education of the control group and the treatment group (Xie et al. 2012). I also conduct auxiliary analyses that investigate potential mechanisms that may explain the heterogeneity pattern.

URL

http://paa2019.populationassociation.org/abstracts/192939

Reference Type

Conference proceeding

Book Title

Population Association of America annual meeting

Author(s)

Park, Kiwoong

Year Published

2019

City of Publication

Austin, TX

Reference ID

7314