Sentences with phrase «teenage birth rate»

Teenage birth rates were found to drop off after infectious disease rates fell, suggesting that later reproductive age underpinned advances in gender equality.

Our data on students» adult outcomes include earnings, college attendance, college quality (measured by the earnings of previous graduates of the same college), neighborhood quality (measured by the percentage of college graduates in their zip code), teenage birth rates for females (measured by claiming a dependent born when the woman was still a teenager), and retirement savings (measured by contributions to 401 [k] plans).

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The paper concludes: «Irrespective of either the matching or the adjustment procedure, we are unable to find evidence that schemes allowing emergency birth control leads to reductions in teenage pregnancy rates» — in other words, whichever way we looked at the data, there was no evidence that confidential pharmacy EBC schemes lead to reductions in teenage pregnancy rates.

Some of these youngsters will get pregnant when they would not have done otherwise and the overall teenage pregnancy (births and abortions combined) rate is likely to increase.

Between 1960 and 1970 the fall in test scores, the doubling of teenage suicide and homicide rates, and the doubling share of births to unwed mothers can not be attributed to economic adversity.

Both the Perry Preschool Project and later the Abecedarian Project [see Figure 1] reported substantial initial gains in cognitive indicators followed by significant long - term improvements in later school performance, rates of teenage and nonmarital births, and employment and earnings.

The teenage violent - death rate — now 69.7 per 100,000 youths — and the percent of out - of - wedlock births have also risen, the study found.

This program reduced the high mortality rate of inner - city infants from summer diarrhea when previous efforts of private agencies had failed.5 In the late 20th century, as funding for public health nurses has declined relative to the need, home - visitation programs have focused on families with special problems such as premature or low - birth - weight infants, children with developmental delay, teenage parents, and families at risk for child abuse or neglect.6

Aboriginal Australians experience multiple social and health disadvantages from the prenatal period onwards.1 Infant2 and child3 mortality rates are higher among Aboriginal children, as are well - established influences on poor health, cognitive and education outcomes, 4 — 6 including premature birth and low birth weight, 7 — 9 being born to teenage mothers7 and socioeconomic disadvantage.1, 8 Addressing Aboriginal early life disadvantage is of particular importance because of the high birth rate among Aboriginal people10 and subsequent young age structure of the Aboriginal population.11 Recent population estimates suggest that children under 10 years of age account for almost a quarter of the Aboriginal population compared with only 12 % of the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.11