The problems of disadvantaged youth
Subtitle: an economic perspective
By: edited by Jonathan Gruber.
Contributors: Gruber, Jonathan.
Series: A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report; National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780226309453
Subjects: Poor youth -- United States -- Social conditions; Poor youth -- Education -- United States; Poor youth -- Health and hygiene -- United States
Description: This study 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 in later life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: what have we learned about the problems of and prospects for disadvantaged youth? / Jonathan Gruber; title: Education : the behavioral consequences of pre-kindergarten participation for disadvantaged youth / David Figlio and Jeffrey Roth; title: Is gaining access to selective elementary schools gaining ground? : evidence from randomized lotteries / Julie Berry Cullen and Brian A. Jacob; title: Would more compulsory schooling help disadvantaged youth? : evidence from  recent changes to school-leaving laws / Philip Oreopoulos; title: Health and healthy behaviors : mental health in childhood and human capital / Janet Currie and Mark Stabile; title: Childhood disadvantage and obesity : is nurture trumping nature? / Patricia M. Anderson, Kristin F. Butcher, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach; title: Socioeconomic disadvantage and early childbearing / Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine; title: Contextual influences : parental income shocks and outcomes of disadvantaged youth in the United States / Marianne Page, Ann Huff Stevens, and Jason Lindo; title: The role of religious and social organizations in the lives of disadvantaged youth / Rajeev Dehejia, Thomas Deleire, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, and Josh Mitchell; title: Neighborhood violence and urban youth / Anna Aizer.