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Does anyone suffer from teenage motherhood? mental health effects of teen motherhood in great britain are small and homogeneous
Institute for Social Science Research and Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Children and Families Over the Life Course, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR). Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2696-9517
School of Mathematical Sciences and Centre for Data Science, Queensland University of Tech-nology, Brisbane, Australia.
2023 (English)In: Demography, ISSN 0070-3370, E-ISSN 1533-7790, Vol. 60, no 3, p. 707-729Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Teen mothers experience disadvantage across a wide range of outcomes. However, previous research is equivocal with respect to possible long-term mental health consequences of teen motherhood and has not adequately considered the pos-si bility that effects on mental health may be heterogeneous. Drawing on data from the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study, this article applies a novel statistical machine-learning approach—Bayesian Additive Regression Trees—to estimate the effects of teen mother hood on mental health outcomes at ages 30, 34, and 42. We extend previous work by esti­mat­ing not only sam­ple-aver­age effects but also indi­vid­ual-spe­cific esti­ma­tes. Our results show that sample-average mental health effects of teen motherhood are sub-stan­tively small at all­time points, apart from age 30 com­par­i­sons to women who first became moth­ers at age 25‒30. Moreover, we find that these effects are largely homo-ge neous for all women in the sample—indicating that there are no subgroups in the data who experience important detrimental mental health consequences. We conclude that there are likely no men­tal health ben­e­fits to pol­icy and inter­ven­tions that aim to prevent teen motherhood.

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Duke University Press, 2023. Vol. 60, no 3, p. 707-729
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Bayesian methods, Causal inference, Mental health, Statistical machine learning, Teenage parenthood
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Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-210197DOI: 10.1215/00703370-10788364ISI: 001018924700004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85161390267OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-210197DiVA, id: diva2:1776924
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Australian Research Council, CE140100027Australian Research Council, CE20010025Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2018-00861Available from: 2023-06-28 Created: 2023-06-28 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved

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