Minimum Wages and Teenage Childbearing in the United States

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Applied Econometrics Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI:10.1002/jae.3112

Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Daniel I. Rees, Joseph J. Sabia, Rebecca Margolit

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Abstract

The minimum wage is increasingly viewed as an important, but often neglected, tool for improving public health outcomes. Using data from the period 2003–2019 and a stacked difference-in-differences regression model that accounts for dynamic and heterogeneous treatment effects, we explore the relationship between minimum wages and teenage childbearing in the United States. We find no evidence of a systematic, negative relationship between minimum wages and childbearing among 15- through 19-year-olds. Likewise, our estimates are not consistent with the argument that minimum wages are an effective policy tool for discouraging female 15- through 19-year-olds from having unprotected sex.

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美国的最低工资和青少年生育

最低工资越来越被视为改善公共卫生成果的一个重要工具，但往往被忽视。利用2003-2019年的数据和考虑动态和异质性治疗效应的叠差回归模型，我们探讨了美国最低工资与青少年生育之间的关系。我们没有发现证据表明最低工资与15- 19岁青少年生育之间存在系统性的负相关关系。同样，我们的估计与最低工资是阻止15至19岁女性发生无保护性行为的有效政策工具的论点不一致。

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Journal of Applied Econometrics Multiple-

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3.70

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4.80%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Applied Econometrics is an international journal published bi-monthly, plus 1 additional issue (total 7 issues). It aims to publish articles of high quality dealing with the application of existing as well as new econometric techniques to a wide variety of problems in economics and related subjects, covering topics in measurement, estimation, testing, forecasting, and policy analysis. The emphasis is on the careful and rigorous application of econometric techniques and the appropriate interpretation of the results. The economic content of the articles is stressed. A special feature of the Journal is its emphasis on the replicability of results by other researchers. To achieve this aim, authors are expected to make available a complete set of the data used as well as any specialised computer programs employed through a readily accessible medium, preferably in a machine-readable form. The use of microcomputers in applied research and transferability of data is emphasised. The Journal also features occasional sections of short papers re-evaluating previously published papers. The intention of the Journal of Applied Econometrics is to provide an outlet for innovative, quantitative research in economics which cuts across areas of specialisation, involves transferable techniques, and is easily replicable by other researchers. Contributions that introduce statistical methods that are applicable to a variety of economic problems are actively encouraged. The Journal also aims to publish review and survey articles that make recent developments in the field of theoretical and applied econometrics more readily accessible to applied economists in general.