【主讲】Norma A. Padrón Assistant Professor of Health Economics (Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn school of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York)
【主题】The Effects of Teenage Childbearing on Adult Soft Skills Development
【时间】2015年12月7日 (周一) 15：30-17：00
【地点】上海财经大学经济学院楼701室
【语言】英文
【摘要】The consequences of teenage have been studied, for the most part, in the context of academic achievement or other indicators of economic well-being. In this paper, we build upon the literature that has advanced the methodology to investigate the causal effects from teenage childbearing, and investigate a set of outcomes that have remained largely unexplored, soft skills and personality. By making use of a rich dataset (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health) we are able to construct more relevant control groups for teenage mothers and explore the causal effects of teenage childbearing on a set of measures that proxy for what is usually deemed in economics as "non-cognitive" or "soft skills". We find that teenage childbearing likely increases impulsivity and has a negative effect on some personality traits like openness.
