Parfait M. Eloundou?Enyegue|C. Shannon Stokes
Teen Fertility and Gender Inequality in Education
Cornell University|Ithaca College
previous studies developed countries found microlevel association teenage fertility girls educational attainment researchers still debate policy implications associationsfirst associations causalsecond substantively important enough policy efforts reduce unintended pregnancy among teens would pay terms narrowing national gender gaps educationthird policies pay contexts payoffs likely importantthis paper focuses latter two questionswe begin proposing contextual hypothesis explain crossnational variation genderequity payoffs reducing unintended teen fertilitywe test hypothesis using dhs data 38 countries