Succeeding Generations : On the Effects of Investments in Children /
If America's future depends on how well we take care of our children, then current trends point toward a bleak horizon. Teenage suicide and pregnancy rates climbed over the past two decades, while the average SAT score, despite recent improvement, remains at an abysmally low level. Succeeding G...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
1995.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Deteriorating Status of America's Children: Facts and Implications
- 2. Toward Understanding the Determinants of Children's Success
- 3. A Tour of Research Studies
- 4. Investments in Children: Some Simple Relationships
- 5. The Determinants of Educational Attainment: High School and Beyond
- 6. The Determinants of Teenage Out-of-Wedlock Births and Welfare Recipiency
- 7. The Determinants of Economic Inactivity
- 8. Our Findings and Some Policy Implications
- Appendix A. Our Data on Children and Young Adults
- Appendix B. The Economic Structure of the Bivariate Profit Models of Chapters 5, 6, and 7.