over time in the incidence of poverty. Between1959 and 1979 the income available to children tended to follow the … samepattern as adult income, but between 1979 and 1984 the trends for childrenwere very unfavorable. Poverty rose, average income … small part in the growth of poverty amongchildren since 1979. Income available to children fell because householdswith …

outcomes, including higher poverty rates throughout life. Are these negative outcomes due to pre-existing differences or do … a woman who marries young is 31 percentage points more likely to live in poverty when she is older. Similarly, a woman …

measures of disadvantage as well as parental involvement with religious and other social organizations when the youth were ages … childhood (family income and poverty measures, family characteristics including parental education, and child characteristics … measures of health and psychological wellbeing). Overall, we find strong evidence that youth with religiously active parents …

parents with young children may increase the intergenerational persistence of poverty and criminal behavior, even in affluent …

that the problems will disappear for recent youth cohorts as they grow older, it also implies that the problems will be … "handed over" to successive waves of youth cohorts as they enter the labor market. The second view is that the labor market … problems of recent youth cohorts are a consequence of their large size. This view has very different implications since …

large percentage of youth motor vehicle accidents and deaths. Simulations suggest that, if reductions in youth alcohol use …

This paper is the first to use the method of instrumental variables to estimate the causal impact of youth obesity on U …,354 (in 2013 dollars) or 159%, which is considerably higher than previous estimates of the association of youth obesity with … medical costs; thus, the cost-effectiveness of anti-obesity interventions have likely been underestimated. The costs of youth …