associated with reduced welfare receipt, reduced fertility, reduced marriage, and lower school drop-out among young women who …We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1979 and 1997 cohorts to compare welfare use, fertility … rates, educational attainment, and marriage rates among teenage women in the years before and the years immediately …

associated with reduced welfare receipt, reduced fertility, reduced marriage, and lower school drop-out among young women who …We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1979 and 1997 cohorts to compare welfare use, fertility … rates, educational attainment, and marriage rates among teenage women in the years before and the years immediately …

media as a link in the causal chain between reality television and fertility. …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is …, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can …

health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal …Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …