“16 and Pregnant” May Have Helped Reduce Prenancies
A new economic study of Nielsen TV ratings and birth records suggests that the controversial MTV show "16 and Pregnant" may have prevented more than 20,000 births to teenage mothers in 2010, according to a story in the New York Times.
The research from the National Bureau of Economic Research makes the case that ht programs reduced the teenage birthrate by nearly 6 percent...