Arbeitspapier
A Teenager in Love: Multidimensional Human Capital and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana
I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal educational attainment, and adult literacy program participation. Pursuing several alternative identification strategies three main results are established. First, I confirm the finding from previous studies that educational attainment is negatively related to teenage pregnancy. Second, however, once Ghanaian and English reading skills are introduced, the association between educational attainment and teenage pregnancy decreases or disappears altogether. Third, for the girls who have not completed primary school, adult literacy program participation is associated with a much lower probability of experiencing a teenage pregnancy.
- Language
-
Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
-
Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 36
Classification
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Analysis of Education
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Subject
Teenage pregnancy
human capital
literacy
adult literacy programs
Ghana
human capital
literacy
adult literacy programs
Ghana
Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Blunch, Niels-Hugo
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Global Labor Organization (GLO)
(where)
Maastricht
(when)
2017
- Handle
- Last update
-
20.09.2024, 8:20 AM CEST
Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Blunch, Niels-Hugo
- Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Time of origin
- 2017
Other Objects (12)
A Teenager in Love: Multidimensional Human Capital and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana
Are You (Not) Expecting? The Unforeseen Benefits of Job Training on Teenage Pregnancy
Are you (not) expecting? The unforeseen benefits of job training on teenage pregnancy
Girls just want to have fun? Sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood among Bolivian teenagers
Does it take two? The effect of partners' characteristics on teenage pregnancy
On the design of education conditional cash transfer programs and non education outcomes: The case of teenage pregnancy
The Last of the Lost Generations? Formal and Non-Formal Education in Ghana during Times of Economic Decline and Recovery
The Last of the Lost Generations? Formal and Non-Formal Education in Ghana during Times of Economic Decline and Recovery
Multidimensional human capital, wages and endogenous employment status in Ghana
Teenage motherhood, education, and labor market outcomes of the mother: Evidence from Brazilian data
Empowering youth: The impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador
American sweethearts : teenage girls in twentieth-century popular culture
A Teenager in Love: Multidimensional Human Capital and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana
Are You (Not) Expecting? The Unforeseen Benefits of Job Training on Teenage Pregnancy
Are you (not) expecting? The unforeseen benefits of job training on teenage pregnancy
Girls just want to have fun? Sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood among Bolivian teenagers
Does it take two? The effect of partners' characteristics on teenage pregnancy
On the design of education conditional cash transfer programs and non education outcomes: The case of teenage pregnancy
The Last of the Lost Generations? Formal and Non-Formal Education in Ghana during Times of Economic Decline and Recovery
The Last of the Lost Generations? Formal and Non-Formal Education in Ghana during Times of Economic Decline and Recovery
Multidimensional human capital, wages and endogenous employment status in Ghana
Teenage motherhood, education, and labor market outcomes of the mother: Evidence from Brazilian data
Empowering youth: The impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador
American sweethearts : teenage girls in twentieth-century popular culture
A Teenager in Love: Multidimensional Human Capital and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana
Are You (Not) Expecting? The Unforeseen Benefits of Job Training on Teenage Pregnancy
Are you (not) expecting? The unforeseen benefits of job training on teenage pregnancy
Girls just want to have fun? Sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood among Bolivian teenagers
Does it take two? The effect of partners' characteristics on teenage pregnancy
On the design of education conditional cash transfer programs and non education outcomes: The case of teenage pregnancy
The Last of the Lost Generations? Formal and Non-Formal Education in Ghana during Times of Economic Decline and Recovery
The Last of the Lost Generations? Formal and Non-Formal Education in Ghana during Times of Economic Decline and Recovery
Multidimensional human capital, wages and endogenous employment status in Ghana
Teenage motherhood, education, and labor market outcomes of the mother: Evidence from Brazilian data
Empowering youth: The impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador