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18378343
TITLE
Does teenage childbearing increase smoking, drinking and body size?
ABSTRACT
This paper analyses the causal effect of teenage childbearing on smoking, drinking and body size using a sample of Australian twins and their relatives. Fixed effects estimates on samples of siblings, all twin pairs and identical twin pairs show that teenage mothers smoke more during their lives. Teen mothers tend to have a higher probability of being overweight, especially if they are older than 40 years. Their spouses are more likely to smoke and drink more. The quality of the spouse seems to be an important mechanism through which teenage childbearing affects subsequent maternal health.
DATE PUBLISHED
2008 Jul
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
received 2007/03/20
revised 2007/11/30
accepted 2008/02/12
aheadofprint 2008/02/17
pubmed 2008/04/02 09:00
medline 2008/10/01 09:00
entrez 2008/04/02 09:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Webbink D Webbink Dinand D CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis and SCHOLAR, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 80510, 2508 GM, The Hague, The Netherlands. webbink@cpb.nl
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
Visscher PM Visscher Peter M PM
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 27
ISSUE: 4
TITLE: Journal of health economics
ISOABBREVIATION: J Health Econ
YEAR: 2008
MONTH: Jul
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0167-6296
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: J Health Econ
COUNTRY: Netherlands
ISSNLINKING: 0167-6296
NLMUNIQUEID: 8410622
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
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GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adolescent
Adult
Alcohol Drinking epidemiology
Australia epidemiology
Body Size epidemiology
Female epidemiology
Health Surveys epidemiology
Humans epidemiology
Middle Aged epidemiology
Pregnancy epidemiology
Pregnancy in Adolescence epidemiology
Smoking epidemiology
Twin Studies as Topic epidemiology
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
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CHEMICALS
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