
Problems of Disadvantaged Youth
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: What Have We Learned About the Problems of and Prospects for Disadvantaged Youth? / Jonathan Gruber
- I. Education
- 1. The Behavioral Consequences of Pre-Kindergarten Participation for Disadvantaged Youth / David Figlio and Jeffrey Roth
- 2. Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence from Randomized Lotteries / Julie Berry Cullen and Brian A. Jacob
- 3. Would More Compulsory Schooling Help Disadvantaged Youth? Evidence from Recent Changes to School-Leaving Laws / Philip Oreopoulos
- II. Health and Healthy Behaviors
- 4. Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital / Janet Currie and Mark Stabile
- 5. Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity: Is Nurture Trumping Nature? / Patricia M. Anderson, Kristin F. Butcher, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
- 6. Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Early Childbearing / Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine
- III. Contextual Influences
- 7. Parental Income Shocks and Outcomes of Disadvantaged Youth in the United States / Marianne Page, Ann Huff Stevens, and Jason Lindo
- 8. The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth / Rajeev Dehejia, Thomas DeLeire, Erzo F. P. Luttmer, and Josh Mitchell
- 9. Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth / Anna Aizer
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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