Access to Higher Education and Adolescent Fertility in Chile

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dc.contributor.authorSalinas, Viviana
dc.contributor.authorJorquera-Samter, Valentina
dc.contributor.authorWiegand-Cruz, Pilar
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T17:22:34Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T17:22:34Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates gender differences in the association between adolescent fertility and the likelihood of initiating higher education among young Chilean men and women. We adopt an entropy balancing strategy to estimate the association between adolescent fertility and the likelihood of starting higher education while accounting for potential selection into early childbearing due to socioeconomic status and prior academic achievement. We use data from official national registers that cover a cohort of Chilean students who attended publicly funded schools and who successfully completed secondary schooling between 2011 and 2022. Our results indicate that adolescent mothers are 15 percentage points less likely to initiate higher education than their peers who did not give birth during adolescence. In comparison, teenage fathers are 20 percentage points less likely to do so than their childless counterparts. Our findings stand in contrast to previously identified disadvantage patterns for secondary school completion, whereby adolescent fertility more significantly hinders schooling completion for women relative to men. We contend that this reversal may be related to traditional gender-role expectations in Chile, which encourage young fathers to act as providers and, therefore, may be prevented from continuing on their education path into tertiary studies.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/sifp.12254
dc.identifier.eissn1728-4465
dc.identifier.issn0039-3665
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.12254
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/91485
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:001113668200001
dc.issue.numero4
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final584
dc.pagina.inicio563
dc.revistaStudies in family planning
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectadolescent fertility
dc.subjecthigher education
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectChile
dc.subjectsocial inequality
dc.subject.ods05 Gender Equality
dc.subject.ods03 Good Health and Well-being
dc.subject.odspa05 Igualdad de género
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.titleAccess to Higher Education and Adolescent Fertility in Chile
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen54
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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