Lopoo, Leonard M.; McLanahan, Sara; Garfinkel, Irwin - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2003
We investigate the influence of changes in demography, the strength of the economy, and social policies on teen birth rates in the U.S. from 1981 to 1999, a period of wildly fluctuating rates. We find that demographic and social policy changes largely counteracted one another during this period...
