The Changing Economic Consequences of Teenage Childbearing.

Recent shifts in economic and social conditions have put young women who begin their childbearing as teenagers in an increasingly precarious economic position. In this article, I use a nationally representative data set to examine how the effect of teenage childbearing on women's economic well-being changed during the period 1968-87. A review of the literature on the consequences of teenage childbearing and changing economic conditions provides a framework in which to interpret the results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]