PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Helena Holmlund
TI  - Estimating Long-Term Consequences of Teenage Childbearing
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.XL.3.716
DP  - 2005 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 716--743
VI  - XL
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XL/3/716.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XL/3/716.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2005 Jul 01; XL
AB  - Within-family estimates have been considered a remedy to selection bias in estimates of long-run consequences of teen motherhood. A major critique, however, is that heterogeneity within the family might still bias the estimates. Using Swedish data on biological sisters, I revisit the question of the consequences of teenage motherhood. My contribution lies in controlling for heterogeneity within the family by using premotherhood school performance, a characteristic that differs across sisters. My findings confirm the presumption that within-family heterogeneity can result in biased sibling estimates. Moreover, my results show that when controlling for school performance, the siblings approach and a traditional cross-section yield similar coefficients.