… IntroductionTeenage motherhood is … linking teenage motherhood to a range of poor
outcomes. This paper brings together key issues with measuring outcomes of teenage motherhood. …

… later life educational attainment among teen mothers, especially nationally representative
samples of such mothers… the characteristics of teen mothers who return to school later in life. …

… of teenage motherhood on late-life health outcomes among women aged 50+ from 13
European countries. Because of the long timespan between teenage motherhood and late-life …

… teenage motherhood, the broader consequences of teenage childbearing beyond the
socioeconomic realm, heterogeneity of effects, and the application of life … problem until later 2. As …

… wanted the baby at the time she became pregnant, if it came at the right time or came later
than desired; and 0 if the mother did not want the baby, was indifferent, or the baby came …

… Half of the children of teenage mothers in our study were not at grade level in 1984; judging
from our research and that of others, school failure appears to be an important risk factor in …

… factors, findings of these studies suggested that teen mothers are more disadvantaged than
later childbearers prior to giving birth, and this prior disadvantage accounts for at least some …

… between teenage childbearing and a poor socioeconomic outcome may not be causal—the
probability of being a teenage mother and the probability of being disadvantaged later on …

… of teenage motherhood. One exception is the frequently cited pattern of repetitions of early
births across generations: daughters of teen mothers … in interpreting some of our later results. …

… There are two reasons for believing that the second-generation teenage mothers have a
poor prognosis of greatly exceeding their own mothers' educational accomplishments in later life…