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The Problems Of Disadvantage Youth "An Economic Perspective"

An Economic Perspective

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  • ISBN:9780226309453
  • Editorial: Chicago U.P.
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  • Nº Pág.:496
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One of the most important public policy issues in the United States is how to improve the life prospects of disadvantaged youth who, in their formative years, face low-quality school systems, poor access to health care, and high-crime environments. "The Problems of Disadvantaged Youth" includes a broad range of research examining various aspects of disadvantage and ways of increasing the ability of low-income youths to improve their circumstances later in life. Taking an empirical economics perspective, the nine essays in this volume assess the causal impacts of disadvantage on youth outcomes, and how policy interventions can alleviate those effects. Each chapter develops a framework to describe the relationship between youths and later life outcomes, addressing such factors as educational opportunity, health, neighborhood crime rates, and employment. This vital book documents the serious short- and long-term negative consequences of childhood disadvantage and provides nuanced evidence of the impact of public policy designed to help needy children.

Introduction What Have We Learned About the Problems of and Prospects for Disadvantaged Youth? by Jonathan Gruber 1
I Education
1 The Behavioral Consequences of Pre-Kindergarten Participation for Disadvantaged Youth by David Figlio and Jeffrey Roth 15
2 Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence from Randomized Lotteries by Julie Berry Cullen and Brian A. Jacob 43
3 Would More Compulsory Schooling Help Disadvantaged Youth? Evidence from Recent Changes to School-Leaving Laws by Philip Oreopoulos 85
II Health and Healthy Behaviors
4 Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital by Janet Currie and Mark Stabile 115
5 Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity: Is Nurture Trumping Nature? by Patricia M. Anderson and Kristin F. Butcher and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach 149
6 Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Early Childbearing by Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine 181
III Contextual Influences
7 Parental Income Shocks and Outcomes of Disadvantaged Youth in the United States by Marianne Page and Ann Huff Stevens and Jason Lindo 213
8 The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth by Rajeev Dehejia and Thomas DeLeire and Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Josh Mitchell 237
9 Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth by Anna Aizer 275

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