Table 6.

Effects of Teenage Childbearing on Adult Outcomes

	OLS		OLS
	Birth/No birth	Miscarriage as an IV	Birth of Miscarriage (No abortions)
Depression Diagnosis	0.003 (0.031)	−0.203*** (0.074)	−0.097** (0.049)
Observations	932	932	699
R-squared	0.046	0.003	0.067
Depression Scale	0.355* (0.208)	−0.812 (0.523)	−0.215 (0.347)
Observations	932	932	699
R-squared	0.021	−0.010	0.025
Optimism	0.012 (0.043)	−0.103 (0.119)	−0.042 (0.075)
Observations	926	926	694
R-squared	0.053	0.045	0.051
Factor Components
I’m always optimistic about my future	−0.327* (0.181)	0.745* (0.426)	0.260 (0.269)
Observations	930	930	697
R-squared	0.061	0.021	0.069
Overall, I expect more good things to happen to me than bad	0.023 (0.059)	−0.099 (0.146)	−0.048 (0.095)
Observations	929	929	696
R-squared	0.042	0.037	0.035
Pessimism
I rarely count on good things happening to me	−0.118 (0.084)	0.268 (0.181)	0.123 (0.115)
Observations	930	930	697
R-squared	0.051	0.018	0.056

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

^***p=1%,

^**p=5%,

^*p=10%