Why is the teen birth rate in the United States so high and why does it matter?

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1. The Incidental Fertility Effects of School Condom Distribution Programs
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2. Effect of an abrupt change in sexual and reproductive health policy on teen birth rates in Ecuador, 2008–2017
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3. Reflections on lived experiences of teenage mothers in a Ghanaian setting: a phenomenological study
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4. Linking Patterns of Substance Use With Sexual Risk-Taking Among Female Adolescents With and Without Histories of Maltreatment
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5. My Journey: Development and Practice-Based Evidence of a Culturally Attuned Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Native Youth
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6. Minimum Wages and Teenage Childbearing: New Estimates Using a Dynamic Difference-in-Differences Approach
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7. Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany: patterns and developments
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8. Neighbourhood Gangs, Crime Spillovers and Teenage Motherhood
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9. Do State-Based Policies Have an Impact on Teen Birth Rates and Teen Abortion Rates in the United States?
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10. Teen Childbearing and Depression: Do Pregnancy Attitudes Matter?
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11. Impact of social service and public health spending on teenage birth rates across the USA: an ecological study
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12. Multi-contextual influences on adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections in the United States
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13. The U.S. Crime Puzzle: A Comparative Perspective on U.S. Crime and Punishment
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14. Longitudinal Links between Income Dynamics and Young Adult Socioeconomic and Behavioral Health Outcomes
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15. The Effect of an Educational Approach to Pregnancy Prevention Among High-Risk Early and Late Adolescents
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16. Evaluating teen options for preventing pregnancy: Impacts and mechanisms
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17. A comparison between pregnancy outcome in women in 15 to 19 and 20 to 35 years age group
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18. Psychological traits and public attitudes towards abortion: the role of empathy, locus of control, and need for cognition
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19. School experiences and young women's pregnancy and parenthood decisions: A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research
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20. Re/Assembling the Pregnant and Parenting Teenager
    Annelies Kamp, Majella McSharry · 2017 · Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London)
21. Human Capital and Intergenerational Mobility in U.S. Counties
    Minghao Li, Stephan J. Goetz, Bruce A. Weber · 2018 · Economic Development Quarterly
22. The Stigma of Being a Young Parent: Development of a Measurement Tool and Predictors
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23. The association between the number of pregnancies and depressive symptoms: A population-based study
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24. Preventing Pregnancy OR Supporting Students? Learning from the Stories of Young Mothers
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25. Teen Fertility and Siblings’ Outcomes
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26. The Puzzle of Falling Us Birth Rates Since the Great Recession
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27. Age-related disparities in national maternal mortality trends: A population-based study
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28. THE LABOR MARKET CONSEQUENCES OF TEENAGE CHILDBEARING
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29. Prevalence and Infant Mortality of Major Congenital Malformations Stratified by Birthweight
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30. Declines in Pregnancies among U.S. Adolescents from 2007 to 2017: Behavioral Contributors to the Trend
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31. Teenage Pregnancy in Adolescents With an Incarcerated Household Member
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32. Estimating the educational consequences of teenage childbearing: Identification, heterogeneous effects and the value of biological relationship information
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33. Association of Access to Publicly Funded Family Planning Services With Adolescent Birthrates in California Counties
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34. Long-Term Effect of Exposure to a Friend's Adolescent Childbirth on Fertility, Education, and Earnings
    Kandice A. Kapinos, Olga Yakusheva · 2016 · Journal of Adolescent Health
35. Evaluation of the Be the Exception Sixth-Grade Program in Rural Communities to Delay the Onset of Sexual Behavior
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36. Good Intention Is Not Enough: Intentional Action to Address Health Disparities in Breastfeeding
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37. Family Resources in Two Generations and School Readiness Among Children of Teen Parents
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38. Adolescent Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Women on Both Sides of the U.S.-Mexico Border
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39. Early Family Formation, Selective Migration, and Childhood Conditions in Rural America☆
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40. Declines in Crime and Teen Childbearing: Identifying Potential Explanations for Contemporaneous Trends
    Cynthia G. Colen, David M. Ramey, Christopher R. Browning · 2016 · Journal of Quantitative Criminology
41. A Comparison of Childbirth Costs for Adolescents and Adults From 2001 to 2010
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42. Emergency Contraception Use in School-Based Health Centers: A Qualitative Study
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43. Books or babies? The incapacitation effect of schooling on minority women
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44. Nutrition in Adolescent Pregnancy
    Katherine Elizabeth Debiec, Judy Simon · 2020 · Springer eBooks
45. The Role of New Media on Teen Sexual Behaviors and Fertility Outcomes – The Case of '16 and Pregnant'
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46. Epidemiologic Surveillance of Teenage Birth Rates in the United States, 2006–2012
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47. The Effect of Statutory Rape Laws on Teen Birth Rates
    Michael Frakes, Matthew Harding · 2015 · American Law and Economics Review
48. Using Photovoice to Explore Teen Parents’ Perspectives on Raising Healthy Children
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49. Intergenerational Mobility and the Growth–Inequality–Poverty Nexus in Africa
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50. View changes and educational demands on sexual/reproductive health of students at Shanghai Jiaotong University.
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51. Friendship networks and adolescent pregnancy: Examining the potential stigmatization of pregnant teens
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52. Early child development and parents' labor supply
    Lukáš Lafférs, B. Schmidpeter · 2020 · Journal of applied econometrics
53. Childhood predictors of adult psychopathy scores among males followed from age 6 to 33
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54. Impact of a relationship‐based intervention, Love Notes, on teen pregnancy prevention
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55. Minimum Wages and Teenage Childbearing in the United States
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56. Longitudinal Patterns of School Disengagement before Conception among New York City Teen Mothers
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57. “Taming the Media Monster”: Teen Pregnancy and the Neoliberal Safety (Inter)Net
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58. Labor Market Conditions and US Teen Birth Rates, 2001–2009
    Robert Cherry, Chun Wang · 2014 · Journal of Family and Economic Issues
59. Understanding Teen Mothers: A Zip Code Analysis
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60. The effect of violent crime on teenage pregnancy in Mexico
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61. Trauma and Early Adolescent Perceptions About Sex and Parenthood: The Mediating Role of Anger Regulation
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62. Early Adversity and Sexual Risk in Adolescence: Externalizing Behaviors as a Mediator
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63. Expectations for Sex without Birth Control among Young Men: Risk Factors from the USA National Survey of Reproductive and Contraceptive Knowledge
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64. Stepping Down from Life-long Posts: Layoffs, Fertility, and Educational Attainment in Urban China
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65. Social Networks and Educational Attainment among Adolescents Experiencing Pregnancy
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66. Decreasing Fertility Rate in the United States: Demographics, Challenges, and Consequences
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67. Unequal contributions to CO2 emissions along the income distribution within and between countries
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68. Life after teenage childbearing: A long-term view on teenage mothers’ wellbeing
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69. Adolescent Pregnancy in the United States
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71. Trauma exposure and adolescent attitudes toward having a baby: An exploratory survey
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72. Parenting experiences and outcomes among former adolescent mothers: A mixed methods study
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73. Tiger Parenting and American Inequality: An Essay on Chua and Rubenfeld’s The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
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74. Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: A Silver Bullet Solution for Unintended Pregnancy?
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75. Reframing the Relationship Between Fertility and Education in Adolescence: 60 Years of Evidence From Latin America
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76. Prevalence, trend and determinants of adolescent childbearing in Burundi: a multilevel analysis of the 1987 to 2016–17 Burundi Demographic and Health Surveys data
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77. Family Formation and Crime
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78. The Triple System for Regulating Women's Reproduction
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79. Developing future leaders in reproductive health through a scholarly concentration for medical students
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80. Family Formation Expectations and Early Pregnancy in Mexican Adolescents
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81. Change in Population Characteristics and Teen Birth Rates in 77 Community Areas: Chicago, Illinois, 1999–2009
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82. Prenatal environmental exposures and associations with teen births
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83. Secondary Schools and Teenage Childbearing: Evidence from the School Expansion in Brazilian Municipalities
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84. The Fracking Boom, Labor Structure, and Adolescent Fertility
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85. Development of Sexual Risk in Minority Youth: Risk and Protective Factors in Early Adolescence
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86. The effects of teenage childbearing on education, physical health, and mental distress: evidence from Mexico
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87. A Nation-Wide Swedish Cohort Study on Early Maternal Age at First Childbirth and Risk for Offspring Deaths, Accidents, and Suicide Attempts
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88. Data Sources and Data Tools
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89. Community-Wide Job Loss and Teenage Fertility
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90. The US Crime Puzzle: A Comparative Perspective on US Crime & Punishment
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91. Effects of Early Childhood Intervention on Fertility and Maternal Employment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
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92. Testing the theory of planned behaviour in predicting condom use in eastern Ghana : a three-wave longitudinal study
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93. Family Formation and Crime
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94. Unequal contributions to CO2 emissions along the income distribution within and between countries
    Federica Cappelli · 2024 · SSRN Electronic Journal
95. Evolución y estado actual de la ciencia y la tecnología en República Dominicana
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96. Missed Opportunities for Discussing Contraception in Adolescent Primary Care
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97. Do age of consent laws decrease teen births?
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98. Factors contributing to and biological concepts about early pregnancy among Filipino adolescent mothers
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99. “The thing in my arm”: Providing contraceptive services for adolescents in primary care
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100. How Sexism in Institutions and Everyday Interactions Shapes Early Childbearing
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