years to find these start-up grants acted more as a kick-start than a lift out of poverty. Grantees' investment leveled off …

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 …

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 …

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

Introduction: what have we learned about the problems of and prospects for disadvantaged youth? / Jonathan Gruber … -- Education : the behavioral consequences of pre-kindergarten participation for disadvantaged youth / David Figlio and Jeffrey … Berry Cullen and Brian A. Jacob -- Would more compulsory schooling help disadvantaged youth? : evidence from recent changes …

There are a host of potentially risky behaviors in which youth engage, which have important implications for both their … well being as youth and their life prospects. The past decade has seen dramatic shifts in the intensity with which youths … pursue these risky activities: for example, youth homicide fell by 40%; teen births decline by 20%; youth smoking rose by 33 …

determinants of the youth smoking decision. We explore four aspects of this decision. First, we consider the demographic correlates … youth; indeed, increasingly over time youth smoking is taking place among white, suburban youth with college educated … 25 and 50% of the rise in youth smoking in the 1990s will persist into adulthood for this cohort; rough calculations …

school students are participating in these programs. The first data source, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 …