their mothers may be less mature, have fewer financial resources when the child is young, and may partner with fathers of … ages. Our evidence suggests that the causal effect of being a child of a teen mother is much smaller than that implied by … selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes. These …

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the …

Among the perceived inputs in the production' of child quality is family size; there is an extensive theoretical … literature that postulates a tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family. However, there is little causal …. These findings suggest the need to revisit economic models of fertility and child production', focusing not only on …