The Problems of Disadvantaged Youth: An Economic Perspective

Jonathan Gruber

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JEL-codes: I2 I3 J13 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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Chapters in this book:

Appendix to "Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital"

Janet Currie and Mark Stabile

Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity: Is Nurture Trumping Nature? , pp 149-180

Patricia Anderson, Kristin Butcher and Diane Schanzenbach

Introduction: What Have We Learned about the Problems of and Prospects for Disadvantaged Youth? , pp 1-12

Jonathan Gruber

Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence from Randomized Lotteries , pp 43-84

Julie Cullen and Brian A. Jacob

Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital , pp 115-148

Janet Currie and Mark Stabile

Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth , pp 275-307

Anna Aizer

Parental Income Shocks and Outcomes of Disadvantaged Youth in the United States , pp 213-235

Marianne Page, Ann Stevens and Jason Lindo

Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Early Childbearing , pp 181-209

Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine

The Behavioral Consequences of Pre-Kindergarten Participation for Disadvantaged Youth , pp 15-42

David Figlio and Jeffrey Roth

The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth , pp 237-274

Rajeev Dehejia, Thomas DeLeire, Erzo Luttmer and Josh Mitchell

Would More Compulsory Schooling Help Disadvantaged Youth? Evidence from Recent Changes to School-Leaving Laws , pp 85-112

Philip Oreopoulos

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