sample from the Alfred P. Sloan Study of Youth and Social Development in order to detect and quantify instances of sampling …

hypothesis is tested with a model of youth employment that includes characteristics of other family members in addition to a …The authors begin with the hypothesis that parental contacts play a major role in finding jobs for youth. This …'s ability to assist the youth in finding a job, including occupation, industry and education. The effects of such variables are …

childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In … of Youth, 1979 (NLSY79). Our major finding is that many of the negative consequences of not delaying childbearing until …

family adult behaviors are strongly related to analogous youth behaviors. The links between the behavior of older family …We examine the effects of family background variables and neighborhood peers on the behaviors of inner-city youths in a … church attendance. We also find that the behaviors of neighborhood peers appear to substantially affect youth behaviors in a …

family size. To explain the connection between these trends and the transformation in family relationships we develop a novel … model of parenting styles that highlights the importance of competition within the family. The key intuition is that the … the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has …

implications, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort (NLSY79). Exploiting the availability of …