Producing Adulthood: Adolescent Employment, Fertility, and the Life Course
dc.contributor.author | Rauscher, Emily | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-28T17:53:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-07-28T17:53:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-03 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Rauscher , Emily. 2011 . “ Producing Adulthood: Adolescent Employment, Fertility, and the Life Course.” Social Science Research 40( 2 ) : 552 - 571. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24760 | |
dc.description.abstract | Adolescent employment is typically framed as having either positive or negative effects. Yet cutting edge research yields apparently contradictory results; work lowers delinquency but also increases school dropout. Both opportunity cost and life course development theories could explain these results. This study investigates effects of employment on fertility among adolescent women, which pits life course development against opportunity cost theory. Using 2006 and 2007 American Community Surveys, individual instrumental variable and state-level difference-in-difference models (following the same cohort over time) control for self-selection and find a positive effect of employment on adolescent fertility. National Vital Statistics birth data confirm state-level results. Results for fertility (and some evidence for other early transitions) indicate that youth employment speeds the transition to adulthood, supporting life course theory. Findings suggest adolescent employment should be reconceived as promoting adult rather than positive or negative behavior. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.rights | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.subject | Adolescence | en_US |
dc.subject | Youth employment | en_US |
dc.subject | Work | en_US |
dc.subject | Life course | en_US |
dc.subject | Fertility | en_US |
dc.subject | Transition to adulthood | en_US |
dc.title | Producing Adulthood: Adolescent Employment, Fertility, and the Life Course | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Rauscher, Emily | |
kusw.kudepartment | Sociology | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.09.002 | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5384-4667 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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