Gender differences in high-school dropout: Vulnerability and adolescent fertility in Chile

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dc.contributor.authorSalinas Ulloa, Viviana Monzerratt
dc.contributor.authorJorquera Samter, Valentina Fernanda
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-17T19:55:31Z
dc.date.available2024-01-17T19:55:31Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe original concerns about the consequences of adolescent fertility assumed that pregnancy is a turning point, which altered teens' life trajectories in terms of school progress, human capital accumulation and labor force participation, placing them on a path of vulnerability. However, several years of research have shown that teenagers who become pregnant are not a random sample of the population, but a selective sample, more likely to have limited socioeconomic resources and other characteristics that made them a vulnerable group to begin with. This paper studies the association between adolescent fertility and high school dropout in Chile taking that selectivity in consideration. We analyze the dropout of teen men and women, considering their socioeconomic status, sociodemographic characteristics, and characteristics of their sexual debut. Data comes the VIII Chilean Survey of the Youth, a nationally representative survey of people 15-29 years old applied in 2015. In order to deal with selectivity issues, we use a combination of propensity score weighting techniques and adjusted generalized linear models for estimating the effect of teen parenthood on high school dropout (ATT), for men and women separately. Our best estimates of the effect of teen parenting on the probability of high school dropout is 16-18 percent for women and ten percent for men, which implies that the educational setback of parenthood for women is about twice as high as the setback of men. These findings suggest the need of policies and interventions aimed both to reduce adolescent fertility, but also to facilitate the high school completion of those who already are parents.
dc.description.funderNational Commission for Scientific and Technological Research, Chile
dc.description.funderANID - Millennium Science Initiative Program
dc.format.extent11 páginas
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100403
dc.identifier.issn1040-2608
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100403
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/80602
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000692534700005
dc.information.autorucInstituto de Sociología; Salinas Ulloa Viviana Monzerratt; 0000-0002-0768-2839; 13304
dc.information.autorucInstituto de Sociología; Jorquera Samter Valentina Fernanda; ; 236025
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesoContenido parcial
dc.publisherELSEVIER SCI LTD
dc.revistaADVANCES IN LIFE COURSE RESEARCH
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectAdolescent fertility
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectPropensity score weighting
dc.subjectSocial vulnerability
dc.subjectChile
dc.subject.ddc370
dc.subject.deweyEducaciónes_ES
dc.subject.ods05 Gender Equality
dc.subject.odspa05 Igualdad de género
dc.titleGender differences in high-school dropout: Vulnerability and adolescent fertility in Chile
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen49
sipa.codpersvinculados13304
sipa.codpersvinculados236025
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;18-03-2022
sipa.trazabilidadORCID;2024-01-08
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