This paper estimates the effects of teenage childbearing on education, working, physical and mental health, and physical activity of young girls in Mexico using two waves of the nationally representative Mexican Family Life Survey. We employ a propensity score matching model that accounts for a rich set of baseline covariates that predict teenage childbearing to attempt to reduce the bias due to confounding variables associated with teenage childbearing. The results demonstrate that teenage childbearing is associated with an increase in the probability of being overweight, and reductions in physical activity and the probability of high school completion. Moreover, the results are consistent when we employ sibling fixed effects to account for unobservable family background.

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青少年生育对教育、身体健康和精神压力的影响：来自墨西哥的证据

本文使用具有全国代表性的墨西哥家庭生活调查的两波评估了青少年生育对墨西哥年轻女孩的教育、工作、身心健康和身体活动的影响。我们采用倾向得分匹配模型，该模型考虑了一组丰富的基线协变量，这些协变量预测青少年生育，以试图减少由于与青少年生育相关的混杂变量而导致的偏差。结果表明，青少年生育与超重概率的增加、体育活动的减少和高中毕业的概率有关。此外，当我们使用兄弟固定效应来解释不可观察的家庭背景时，结果是一致的。