Children as income-producing assets: The case of teen illegitimacy and government transfers

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 827-856

  Clarke, George R G ^a   Strauss, Robert P ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENTS; ADOLESCENTS, FEMALE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; ETHNIC GROUP; FERTILITY; ILLEGITIMACY; JUVENILE; METHODOLOGY; NEGRO; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR--DETERMINANTS; RESEARCH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STUDIES; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADOLESCENTS; ADOLESCENTS, FEMALE; AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; BLACKS; CASE STUDIES; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FERTILITY; ILLEGITIMACY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR--DETERMINANTS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDIES; UNITED STATES; WHITES; YOUTH;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FERTILITY; ILLEGITIMACY; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032216513     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1061207     Document Type: Article

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