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SUBMITTER: Williams K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6045914 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of health and social behavior 20151201 4
Despite evidence that first-birth timing influences women's health, the role of marital status in shaping this association has received scant attention. Using multivariate propensity score matching, we analyze data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 to estimate the effect of having a first birth in adolescence (prior to age 20), young adulthood (ages 20-24), or later ages (ages 25-35) on women's midlife self-assessed health. Findings suggest that adolescent childbearing is assoc ...[more]