Sandy Tubeuf, PhD

My current work in progress in this area includes the research I undertake as part of my Leverhulme research fellowship as well as collaborative research work with PhD students working on global health research questions. I have also used policy evaluation methods and propensity score matching to evaluate the impact of teenage motherhood on earnings.

 

 

Estimating the effect of teenage childbearing on earnings in the long-term: Evidence from a cohort study with Rosalind Bell-Aldeghi

 

Abstract - We use data from the 1970 British Cohort Study and evaluate the effect of teenage motherhood on hourly earnings at age 30, 34, 38 and 42 using alternative non-experimental estimation methods including linear regression, matching methods, and Heckman sample selection models. We conclude that teenage motherhood has a significant negative long-term effect on hourly wages. At age 42, teenage mothers earn 12% less than their female counterparts and 29% less than women who have not had any children. When comparing to women who delayed childbearing, the pay penalty reduces over time and becomes insignificant at age 42.   

 

Evaluating neighbourhood based policies using Secondary Data: the Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder Programme with Jennifer Roberts and Peter Tyler  

 

Abstract - A considerable amount of public money has been spent on local Neighbourhood-Based Initiatives (NBI) but an overall policy evaluation with comparable control areas exploring the effects of these initiatives on a broad range of outcomes, including housing, education, health and employment, has not been undertaken. My project aims to explore the feasibility of evaluating NBI using the British Household Panel Survey grid reference data, and to estimate the causal effects of one exemplar NBI, the neighbourhood Pathfinder Programme. My work contributes to the evidence base on NBI and to methodological developments in policy evaluation via natural experiments.