US Fertility II: Mother's Age At First Birth

by Edward HughBirth Rates By Age of Mother US 1990 - 2003Another 'stylised fact' of US fertility has been the comparatively low average first birth ages of US mothers when compared with, say, European ones. In part this has been a product of the comparatively high level of teenage pregnancy, but this is far from being the whole picture. As can be seen from the above graph birth rates in the age