Motherhood during schooling: to which extent is it a risk for early completion of studies in Romania and some other European countries?

Abstract
Early motherhood, during schooling, has usually negative consequences on women’s later life. For teenage girls, a pregnancy ending in a birth increases the risks of dropping out education, because she could be in need to handle with child and family. Consequently her accumulated human capital will reduce, as well as her ability to take advantage of life opportunities. The gender equality will deteriorate.
Adopting a life course perspective, I study the impact of the transition to motherhood on educational enrolment in Romania and other European countries (with GGS data) based on the presupposition that early motherhood has a negative effect, by reducing educational aspirations. However, since institutional and cultural factors do play a crucial role in shaping life-course interrelationship, I intend to disentangle between three periods: the 1980s, the 1990s, and the 2000s. For Romania and other former-communist countries these periods mark: i) the last years of the communist authoritarian regime, ii) the first years of transition to democracy and market economy, and iii) the consolidated capitalist regime. For the countries with stable sociopolitical regimes, the comparative analyses by period reveal the dynamic of the relationship between teenage motherhood and completion of studies, and highlight differences with CEE countrs.
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Event ID
17
Paper presenter
47 757
Language (Translated)
fr
Title (Translated)
Maternités précoces en Roumanie et dans d’autres pays d’Europe : un risque d’interruption des études ?
Abstract (Translated)
Les maternités précoces, qui surviennent durant les études, ont généralement un impact négatif sur la vie des jeunes filles concernées à l’âge adulte. Chez les adolescentes, une grossesse qui se termine par une naissance accroît les risques d’interruption des études, parce qu’elles sont appelées à s’occuper de leur enfant et de leur famille. De ce fait, leur capital humain accumulé diminue, de même que leur capacité à saisir les opportunités, avec pour conséquence une détérioration de l’égalité entre les genres. Selon la perspective du parcours de vie, j’étudie l’impact de la transition vers la maternité sur le taux de scolarisation en Roumanie et d’autres pays européens (à partir de données GGS), en partant du présupposé que les maternités précoces ont un impact négatif parce qu’elles réduisent l’ambition scolaire des jeunes filles. Cependant, les facteurs institutionnels et culturels jouent également un rôle crucial dans l’orientation des parcours de vie, et je vais donc distinguer trois périodes : les années 1980, les années 1990 et les années 2000. Pour la Roumanie et d’autres anciens pays communistes, ces périodes marquent :i) les dernières années du régime communiste autoritaire, ii) les premières années de transition vers la démocratie et l’économie de marché, et iii) la consolidation du régime capitaliste. Pour les pays jouissant d’un système sociopolitique stable, l’analyse comparative par période met en lumière la dynamique de la relation entre maternité adolescente et achèvement des études, et souligne les différences avec les pays de l’Union européenne.
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2
Type of Submissions
Regular session presentation, if not selected I agree to present my paper as a poster
Language of Presentation
English
First Choice History
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Weight in Programme
1 000
Status in Programme
1

Intergenerational Transmission of Age at First Birth in the United States: Evidence from Multiple Surveys

Abstract
It is well established that the timing of childbearing is transmitted from parents to children in the United States. However, little is known about how the intergenerational link has changed over time and under structural and ideological transformations associated with fertility behaviors. This study first considers changes across two birth cohorts from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) in the extent to which parents’ age at first birth is transmitted to their children. The first cohort includes individuals born during the late 1950s through the early 1960s (NLSY79) while the second includes individuals born in the early 1980s (NLSY97). Results from discrete-time event history analyses indicate that the intergenerational transmission of age at first birth between mothers and daughters as well as between mothers and sons significantly increased over the period. These results were confirmed by analyses of data from three cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) spanning the same time period. Over this period, age at first childbirth became increasingly younger for children born to teenage mothers and increasingly older for those born to mothers who entered parenthood after age 25. These patterns have important implications for reproductive polarization and the low-fertility trap hypothesis.
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Event ID
17
Paper presenter
53 399
Type of Submissions
Regular session presentation, if not selected I agree to present my paper as a poster
Language of Presentation
English
Weight in Programme
2
Status in Programme
1