Spatially varying predictors of teenage birth rates among counties in the United States

BACKGROUND Limited information is available about teenage pregnancy and childbearing in rural areas, even though approximately 20 percent of the nation's youth live in rural areas. Identifying whether there are differences in the teenage birth rate (TBR) across metropolitan and nonmetropoli...

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Main Authors: Carla Shoff, Tse-Chuan Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2012-09-01
Series:Demographic Research
Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol27/14/