Trends and inequities in adolescent childbearing in Latin American and Caribbean countries across generations and over time: a population-based study

Sanhueza, Antonio; Costa, Janaína Calu; Mújica, Óscar J.; Carvajal, Liliana; Caffé, Sonja; Victora, César G.; Barros, Aluísio J. D.

doi:10.1016/s2352-4642(23)00077-9

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“…Latin America is an interesting context for studying the effect of adolescent fertility on educational outcomes for several reasons. The region has the second highest adolescent fertility rate in the world (Sanhueza et al 2023), yet access to education has expanded in the region in the last decades (Lima et al 2018). In addition, adolescent fertility is strongly related to socioeconomic inequalities in Latin America, even in countries where the adolescent fertility rate has been declining (Ferre, Triunfo, and Antón 2023;Sanhueza et al 2023).…”

Section: Adolescent Fertility and Education In Latin Americamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The region has the second highest adolescent fertility rate in the world (Sanhueza et al 2023), yet access to education has expanded in the region in the last decades (Lima et al 2018). In addition, adolescent fertility is strongly related to socioeconomic inequalities in Latin America, even in countries where the adolescent fertility rate has been declining (Ferre, Triunfo, and Antón 2023;Sanhueza et al 2023). For years, adolescent fertility in Latin America has been "resistant to decline" (Rodríguez Vignoli, Di Cesare, and Páez 2017), which is in contrast with the evolution of the total fertility rate, which has dropped steadily in Latin America since the 1960s or even earlier .…”

Section: Adolescent Fertility and Education In Latin Americamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous research has shown marked differences in the probability of becoming an adolescent mother by measures of SES, such as family income, educational attainment, or wealth, as well as by place of residence, and belonging to an indigenous group (Lima et al 2018;Rodríguez Vignoli and Cavenaghi 2014;Villalobos-Hernández et al 2015). Recent data trends indicate that the socioeconomic gap in the adolescent fertility rate has been declining in several Latin American countries, with reductions among the poorest groups declining faster than reductions among the richest; however, 2030 predictions still show that adolescents in the poorest groups will have considerably higher fertility rates than those in the wealthiest group (Sanhueza et al 2023). Socioeconomic differences in adolescent fertility are associated with differential use of contraceptives according to SES in the region.…”

Section: Adolescent Fertility and Education In Latin Americamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The region has the second highest adolescent fertility rate in the world (Sanhueza et al. 2023), yet access to education has expanded in the region in the last decades (Lima et al. 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent data trends indicate that the socioeconomic gap in the adolescent fertility rate has been declining in several Latin American countries, with reductions among the poorest groups declining faster than reductions among the richest; however, 2030 predictions still show that adolescents in the poorest groups will have considerably higher fertility rates than those in the wealthiest group (Sanhueza et al. 2023). Socioeconomic differences in adolescent fertility are associated with differential use of contraceptives according to SES in the region.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Access to Higher Education and Adolescent Fertility in Chile

Salinas,

Jorquera‐Samter,

Wiegand‐Cruz

2023

Studies in Family Planning

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This study investigates gender differences in the association between adolescent fertility and the likelihood of initiating higher education among young Chilean men and women. We adopt an entropy balancing strategy to estimate the association between adolescent fertility and the likelihood of starting higher education while accounting for potential selection into early childbearing due to socioeconomic status and prior academic achievement. We use data from official national registers that cover a cohort of Chilean students who attended publicly funded schools and who successfully completed secondary schooling between 2011 and 2022. Our results indicate that adolescent mothers are 15 percentage points less likely to initiate higher education than their peers who did not give birth during adolescence. In comparison, teenage fathers are 20 percentage points less likely to do so than their childless counterparts. Our findings stand in contrast to previously identified disadvantage patterns for secondary school completion, whereby adolescent fertility more significantly hinders schooling completion for women relative to men. We contend that this reversal may be related to traditional gender‐role expectations in Chile, which encourage young fathers to act as providers and, therefore, may be prevented from continuing on their education path into tertiary studies.

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Section: Adolescent Fertility and Education In Latin Americamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Adolescent Fertility and Education In Latin Americamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Adolescent Fertility and Education In Latin Americamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The region has the second highest adolescent fertility rate in the world (Sanhueza et al. 2023), yet access to education has expanded in the region in the last decades (Lima et al. 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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