Table 5.

Who completes or returns to school - teenage mothers observed pre and post birth

	Dependent variable: Age standardized dropping out
	(1)	Pre-birth HH controls	Post-birth HH controls
		(2)	(3)
Age at first birth	−0.098*** (0.022)	−0.096*** (0.022)	−0.105*** (0.023)
Age standardized prior education	−0.351*** (0.032)	−0.319*** (0.033)	−0.321*** (0.033)
Pre birth data from 1–2 years prior to birth+	0.061 (0.064)	0.073 (0.064)	0.079 (0.064)
Assets		−0.053*** (0.013)	−0.060*** (0.013)
Toilet		−0.060 (0.079)	−0.029 (0.082)
Piped water		0.073 (0.074)	0.190** (0.076)
Resident members		0.014* (0.009)	0.019** (0.008)
Mother co-resident		−0.123 (0.082)	−0.100 (0.086)
Father co-resident		0.177** (0.080)	0.155* (0.084)
Mother dead		−0.067 (0.102)	−0.009 (0.099)
Father dead		0.068 (0.073)	0.062 (0.070)
At least one resident female pensioner		0.031 (0.071)	−0.015 (0.069)
At least one resident male pensioner		0.346*** (0.106)	0.075 (0.103)
Observations	1,403	1,399	1,394

Note: Prior years of education and dropping out rates are aged-standardized by subtracting the age mean and dividing by the age standard deviation. Sample includes all teenage mothers who had an HSE interview within the two years preceding the birth and another HSE interview between one and two years after the birth. We exclude from the sample the small percentage of teenage mothers who had already matriculated at the HSE interview prior to the birth. All regressions include a full set of indicators for isigodi. Standard errors in parentheses.

^***p<0.01,

^**p<0.05,

^*p<0.1.

⁺0–1 years prior to birth reference category