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dc.titleCost of Adolescent Childbearing: A Review of Evidence from Chile, Barbados, Guatemala and Mexico
dc.contributor.authorBuvinic, Mayra
dc.contributor.orgunitSustainable Development Department
dc.coverageBarbados
dc.coverageChile
dc.coverageGuatemala
dc.coverageMexico
dc.date.available2011-10-06T00:00:00
dc.date.issue1998-07-01T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractDoes early childbearing restrict women's social and economic opportunities? These questions are explored by examining the effects, first on marital status and family formation, and second on women's employment options, earnings and poverty condition. The four studies presented here (from Chile, Barbados, Guatemala and Mexico) include controls for background variables and the timing of the consequences of observations. The review describes gross differences that emerged in the studies and explores how much the observed differences were due to background factors associated with adolescent childbearing, including poverty, which is a potentially large confounding variable in developing economies. The presence of sizable poverty and the nature of women's economic participation provide the common ground to assess consequences of adolescent childbearing in countries that otherwise iffer considerable in the cultural circumstances surrounding family formation and childbearing.
dc.format.extent21
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008884
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Cost-of-Adolescent-Childbearing-A-Review-of-Evidence-from-Chile-Barbados-Guatemala-and-Mexico.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectPoverty
dc.subjectYouth and Children
dc.subjectWomen
dc.subject.keywordsteenage childbearing, adolescent childbearing, economic and social opportunities for mothers
dc.typeTechnical Notes
idb.identifier.pubnumberTechnical Notes
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