The Schooling Costs of Teenage Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing: Analysis with a Within-School Propensity-Score-Matching Estimator

By D. Levine, Gary D. Painter. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003

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Does the Age That Children Start Kindergarten Matter? Evidence of Long-Term Educational and Social Outcomes (2006, methodology): “In the context of labor markets, Heckman, Ichimura, and Todd (1997) note the increased efficiency of matching within the same region, and Levine and Painter (2003) show a similar increase in efficiency when estimating the effect of out-of-wedlock fertility.”
The early socioeconomic effects of teenage childbearing: A propensity score matching approach (2010, background): “Past studies employing the matching approach have focused mainly on selection bias due to observed covariates (Chevalier and Viitanen 2003; Levine and Painter 2003).”
Sensitivity of Propensity Score Methods to the Specifications (2008, unknown): “Some empirical studies, such as reanalyzing the National Supported Work Demonstration by Dehejia and Wahba (1999), evaluating antipoverty program in Argentina by Jalan and Ravallion (2003), investigating teenage out-of-wedlock childbearing by Levine and Painter (2003), and studying the”
“I Wanna Have a Good Future”: Teen Mothers' Rise in Educational Aspirations, Competing Demands, and Limited School Support (2007, background): “Nevertheless, high school graduation rates and enrollment in college among teen mothers continue to be lower than for later childbearers (Hofferth, Reid, & Mott, 2001; Levine & Painter, 2003).”