Revisiting the Educational Cost of Teenage and Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing - Evidence from Nonparametric Matching

Facilitate research on matching methods and porposal development applying these methods to teenage childbearing and out-of-wedlock childbearing. Despite the intuition that teenage and out-of-wedlock childbearing may adversely affect socioeconomic outcomes, many factors stand in the way of accurately assessing the economic and social consequences of such childbearing. An overriding concern in recent years has been the role of omitted variable in estimating the causal effect of teenage and out-of-wedlock childbearing on socioeconomic outcomes. Specifically, those women who bear children out-of-wedlock may well be the same women whose economic status would have been poor in any case. The research will address this and several other concerns in estimation.