New Evidence on the Relationship Between Academic Ability and Nonmarital Teen Childbearing [ChildTrends.org]

Samantha Sangenito 7/30/154:00 AM

Publication date: July 2015

Previous studies have found that girls who perform well in school are less likely to become teen mothers. In this brief exploring the relationship between academic ability and the likelihood of experiencing a non-marital teen birth, we show that this is true for girls with few behavioral problems, but not for others, and only for certain measures of academic ability.

[See the publication at http://www.childtrends.org/?pu...sthash.AFNRfTnG.dpuf]

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