A Teenager in Love: Multidimensional Human Capital and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana
研究了加纳青少年怀孕与教育程度、加纳语和英语阅读技能以及成人扫盲项目参与之间的关系，发现阅读技能比教育程度更能降低怀孕风险，且成人扫盲项目对未完成小学教育的女孩效果显著。
I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal educational attainment, and adult literacy programme participation. Pursuing several alternative identification strategies three main results are established. First, I confirm the finding from previous studies that educational attainment is negatively related to teenage pregnancy. Second, however, once Ghanaian and English reading skills are introduced, the association between educational attainment and teenage pregnancy decreases or disappears altogether. Third, for the girls who have not completed primary school, adult literacy programme participation is associated with a much lower probability of experiencing a teenage pregnancy.A bright future is the best contraceptive.–Marian Wright Edelman