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contraceptive use and abortion, as captured by internet search and tweeting behavior …
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birth. Our work suggests that connecting youth personally with the experiences of teen parents is a promising avenue for …
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This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of … remaining 84 percent. Place effects are more influential for children of non-college-educated mothers, and are most strongly …
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parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and …
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We examine the effect of teenage childbearing on the adult outcomes of a sample of women who gave birth, miscarried or had an abortion as teenagers. If miscarriages are (conditionally) random, then if all miscarriages occur before teenagers can obtain abortions, using the absence of a...
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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 …
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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 …
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Over the past decade, social media platforms have emerged as prominent vehicles for displaying dissent. In response …
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earnings of mothers and employment of grandmothers. Studying a universal childcare program in Quebec, we find formal childcare … increases the employment rates of mothers, as well as that of grandmothers to a lesser extent. Examining heterogeneity of the … program's impact across Census Divisions, we find a negative correlation between the positive effects on mothers' employment …
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We study the impacts of a policy designed to reward mothers who stay at home rather than join the labor force when … high school, and increase youth crimes. We confirm that the mechanism of action is changing work/home care arrangements by … on mothers and children compared to HCA. Our findings suggest that shifting child care from the home to the market …
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