Favara, M., Lavado, P., & Sánchez, A. (2020). Understanding teenage fertility in Peru: An analysis using longitudinal data. Review of Development Studies, 24(4), 1217-1236. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12648

Reducing the prevalence of teenage pregnancy remains an elusive goal for public policy in Peru. Researchers use longitudinal data from the Young Lives Study in Peru to investigate on an extensive set of early circumstances and life changes that might be the risk factors for teenage childbearing—about one out of five girls in the sample was a teenage mother.