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Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing

Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects

Jason M. Fletcher and Barbara L. Wolfe
Journal of Human Resources, March 2009, 44 (2) 303-325; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.44.2.303
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