Cueva, S. (2020). Entendiendo la paradoja de la maternidad adolescente en Lima Metropolitana: Un análisis de los efectos de vecindario en el 2013. Lima: GRADE. Avances de Investigación, 41.

During the last 35 years, teenage childbearing rate in Metropolitan Lima has not decreased, despite the fact that the capital city has greater access to public services and better economic opportunities than other regions of Peru. In this paper, this apparent paradox is analyzed based on an exploratory analysis of neighborhood effects for 2013. Specifically, through an analysis of spatial dependency and “hot spots” it is tested whether space matters in the agglomeration of cases of teenage childbearing. In addition, it is analyzed how the characteristics of the neighborhoods and the people who live in them are associated with the probability that the adolescents will become mothers, for which a strategy of overlapping neighborhoods is used, unique for each georeferenced block.