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A Cautionary Tale of Evaluating Identifying Assumptions: Did Reality TV Really Cause a Decline in Teenage Childbearing?

David A. JaegerPh.D. Program in Economics, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY10016, and Department of Economics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, and IZA, Bonn, Germany, and NBER, New York, NY ([email protected])
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Theodore J. JoyceBaruch College, CUNY, Department of Economics and Finance, 55 Lexington Ave, New York, NY10010, and NBER, New York, NY ([email protected])Correspondence[email protected]
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Robert KaestnerInstitute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, 815 West Van Buren Street, Suite 525, Chicago, IL60607, and NBER, New York, NY ([email protected])
Pages 317-326 | Received 01 Sep 2017, Published online: 16 Oct 2018

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