slowly. Children of teenagers may experience difficult childhoods and hence be more likely to commit crimes subsequently. I …

father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with … rise in relative earnings of wives increased competition between spouses for the love and affection of their children while … the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college … educated mothers are particularly responsive to changes in environmental amenities. I estimate that differences in exposure to … toxic releases may explain 6% of the gap in incidence of low birth weight between infants of white college educated mothers …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative … selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes. These …

In the U.S. teen mothers are more likely to give birth to low birth weight babies than non-teen mothers. There is also … the short and long term for parents, children, and society at large. This paper examines the causal link between teen age … estimator to identify the impact of smoking on babies of teen and non-teen mothers. We find that both OLS and matching estimator …

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 … the effect of maternal age and single parenthood on children's disability status and school progress. Our results suggest …

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

likelihood that children and households experience any food insecurity--by between 50 and 80%, depending on the measure of food … Program; Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; Medicaid; and the Temporary Assistance to Needy …