Replication data for: A Reason to Wait: The Effect of Legal Status on Teen Pregnancy

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Elira Kuka; Na'ama Shenhav; Kevin Shih

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Project Citation:

Kuka, Elira, Shenhav, Na’ama, and Shih, Kevin. Replication data for: A Reason to Wait: The Effect of Legal Status on Teen Pregnancy. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114505V1

Project Description

Summary: Although teen pregnancy has been on the decline in the United States, it remains among the highest within developed countries. Hispanics, who are more likely to be undocumented immigrants, lead this trend, yet the role of legal status has yet to be considered. To investigate this question, we examine teenage fertility responses to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides temporary legal status to undocumented youth. We find that DACA reduced the likelihood of having a teenage birth by 1.6 percentage points and eliminated roughly half of the gap in teenage childbearing between documented and undocumented women.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Difference-in-difference; policy evaluation

JEL Classification:
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J18 Demographic Economics: Public Policy
      K37 Immigration Law

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 2005 – 2015

Universe: Hispanic women between the ages of 15 and 20 (ACS), or between the ages of 14 and 18 and attend high school (YRBSS)

Data Type(s): survey data; census/enumeration data

Methodology

Data Source: IPUMS American Community Survey (ACS) and Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)

Unit(s) of Observation: Individuals,

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V1 [2019-10-13]

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