BACKGROUND Never before have parents in most Western societies had their first children
as late as in recent decades. What are the central reasons for postponement? What is …

After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups,
and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives …

We estimate a dynamic life cycle model of labor supply, fertility, and savings, incorporating
occupational choices, with specific wage paths and skill atrophy that vary over the career …

We estimate the long-run impact of cash transfers to poor families on children's longevity,
educational attainment, nutritional status, and income in adulthood. To do so, we collected …

This paper analyzes the effects of changes in the duration of paid, job-protected parental
leave on mothers' higher-order fertility and postbirth labor market careers. Identification is …

The remarkable transformation of the American social safety net that began in the early
1990s has led to seismic shifts in who benefits and how. More than two decades later, how …

Why is the rate of teen childbearing is so unusually high in the United States as a whole, and
in some US states in particular? US teens are two and a half times as likely to give birth as …

Instrumental Variables (IV) methods identify internally valid causal effects for individuals
whose treatment status is manipulable by the instrument at hand. Inference for other …

Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly
attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community—white …

In 1935 the United States implemented its first federal welfare program. Soon to become
known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, or AFDC, its goal was to alleviate need …