Amid debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or merely symptomatic of deeper, ingrained disadvantage, this paper aggregates recent quantitative evidence on the socioeconomic consequences of and methods to reduce of teenage pregnancy in the developing world.
Overall, the authors find insufficient empirical evidence to suggest that adolescent fertility per se represents a major development problem since the socioeconomic outcomes of those affected by adolescent fertility are akin to those of similar but unaffected cohorts.