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

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

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 …

This study explores the effect of in-person schooling on youth suicide. We document three key findings. First, using … experience increases in teen suicides in August, while areas with schools starting in September don't see youth suicides rise … queries and the Youth Risk Behavior Survey suggests that bullying victimization may be an important mechanism …

The epidemic of youth violence in the United States peaked in 1993 and has been followed by a rapid, sustained drop. In … youth violence has been narrowly confined with respect to race, sex, and age, but not geography. Given the volatility in the …

decrease adult consumption by 3%-5%. A smaller literature on youth responsiveness to cigarette prices has also emerged. A … majority of these studies concluded that youth are up to three times as responsive to price as are adults. Only four … econometric studies have attempted to model youth and young adult smoking initiation decisions. All four studies concluded that …