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This paper stresses that the key to concerns about the progress of second-generation Americans is the fate of the Mexican second generation. It compares several indicators of the advances of second-generation Mexicans to those of non-Hispanic, native-born blacks and non-Hispanic, native-born...
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We analyze the effect of having a child in adolescence on high school completion, educational attainment, and college enrollment in a developing country setting using nine repeated rounds of Chilean household surveys that span the 1990-2009 period. We control for selection bias and household...
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society. Not all young women who fit this demographic category become young or single mothers who depend on AFDC; some who do …
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in Chile. Using eight rounds of household surveys, we find that adolescents who were born to teen mothers, those that …
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likelihood that adolescent girls become mothers. By increasing the number of hours spent in school, the reform curtails … mothers. We find that access to full-day schools reduces the probability of becoming an adolescent mother among poor families …
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provide new evidence on this question, showing that 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 … between infants of white college educated mothers and infants of black high school dropout mothers"--National Bureau of …
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