High school dropout is commonly seen as the result of a long-term process of failure and
disengagement. As useful as it is, this view has obscured the heterogeneity of pathways …

Over the past two decades, births to US teenagers have fallen and no longer follow overall
fertility patterns. Yet the unique challenges faced by teenage mothers and their families …

Despite the firm consensus that income inequality is intrinsically undesirable, its impact on
economic growth is much disputed. We posit that the relationship between income inequality …

We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry
on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school …

This article assesses the role of conditionality in cash transfer programs using a unique
experiment targeted at adolescent girls in Malawi. The program featured two distinct …

In 1972, Congress took another major step forward by requiring each state's Medicaid
program to include coverage of family planning services and supplies for all beneficiaries of …

John Tyler and Magnus Lofstrom take a close look at the problems posed when students do
not complete high school. The authors begin by discussing the ongoing, sometimes heated …

This paper evaluates the financial and economic consequences of being denied an
abortion. We link credit report data to the Turnaway Study, which collected high-quality …

This paper explores how the wage and career consequences of motherhood differ by skill
and timing. Past work has often found smaller or even negligible effects from childbearing for …

Although teenage mothers have lower educational attainment and earnings than women
who delay fertility, causal interpretations of this relationship remain controversial. Scholars …