literature by exploring whether teenagers' access to primary health care influences their fertility and educational attainment … has affected teen fertility and high school dropout rates. Our results indicate that school-based health centers have a …

be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … mothers are much more likely to repeat one or more grades than other children, and within-household estimates of this … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Another finding of interest is that having a father in the household is …

schooling and labor market outcomes of mothers observed in 1980 and 1990 Census microdata. Reduced-form estimates suggest that … state abortion reforms had a negative impact on teen marriage, teen fertility, and teen out- of-wedlock childbearing. The … teen marriage effects are largest and most precisely estimated for white women while the teen fertility and out …

children live with a never-married mother. Children of never-married mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, repeat …

data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Young Adults. We estimate an instrumental variables model with an …

Improving the long-term life outcomes of disadvantaged youth remains a top policy priority in the United States … results from a large randomized controlled trial of an intervention for disadvantaged male youth grades 7-10 from high … behavioral therapy (CBT). We randomly assigned 2,740 youth to programming or to a control group; about half those offered …

In the U.S. teen mothers are more likely to give birth to low birth weight babies than non-teen mothers. There is also … estimator to identify the impact of smoking on babies of teen and non-teen mothers. We find that both OLS and matching estimator …