Table 5.

Effects of Teenage Childbearing on Adult Outcomes

	OLS		OLS
	Birth/No birth	Miscarriage as an IV	Birth or Miscarriage (No abortions)
Locus of control	−0.079 (0.063)	0.183 (0.141)	0.064 (0.085)
Observations	929	929	696
R-squared	0.055	0.035	0.067
Factor Components
There is little I can do to change the important things in my life	−0.037 (0.056)	0.134 (0.143)	0.031 (0.081)
Observations	929	929	696
R-squared	0.035	0.026	0.041
Other people determine most of what I can and cannot do	−0.062 (0.059)	−0.041 (0.119)	−0.017 (0.077)
Observations	930	930	697
R-squared	0.042	0.041	0.054
There are many things that interfere with what I want to do	−0.127* (0.070)	0.153 (0.169)	0.065 (0.108)
Observations	930	930	697
R-squared	0.038	0.023	0.034
I have little control over the things that happen to me	−0.053 (0.061)	0.147 (0.139)	0.049 (0.087)
Observations	930	930	697
R-squared	0.033	0.020	0.037
There is really no way I can solve the problems I have	−0.033 (0.047)	0.193* (0.110)	0.078 (0.064)
Observations	930	930	697
R-squared	0.025	−0.002	0.040

Controls: Age, indicator for conception <15 years old, smoke during pregnancy. Each cell is a separate regression;

^***p=1%,

^**p=5%,

^*p=10%