children and adults living in poverty. Our research design exploits the county roll-out of US family planning programs in the … late 1960s and early 1970s and examines their relationship with poverty rates in the short and longer-term in public census … data. We find that cohorts born after federal family planning programs began were less likely to live in poverty in …

the household is also affected as subsequent fertility is lower and partnership dissolution is more common. Finally … help from government transfers and lower cost associated with having fewer other children, or due to a stronger savings …

be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … the effect of maternal age and single parenthood on children's disability status and school progress. Our results suggest … that there is little association between maternal age at birth and children's disabilities. But the children of teen …