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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

desegregation, teenage pregnancy, interracial relationships, pregnancy rates

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Economics

Abstract

In the United States, two out of three teenagers have sex before graduating from high school. As a result there is a high probability that young women are at risk to become pregnant while still in high school . Studies have shown that teenage pregnancy is associated with a number of adverse outcomes for both mother and child, including less human capital investment and lower future wages . Because of this, factors that could lower teenage pregnancy are important in improving the lives of both young women and future generations. Over the last 50 years, researchers have investigated various mechanisms that have driven teenage pregnancy rates steadily downward. However desegregation, a major social and political change that occurred between the 1960s and 1980s, has been left almost entirely unexplored.

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