The state bonus to reward a decrease in 'illegitimacy': Flawed methods and questionable effects

Family Planning Perspectives

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 142-143

  Dye, Jane Lawler ^a   Presser, Harriet B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Russell Sage Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; GOVERNMENT; ILLEGITIMACY; NOTE; SOCIAL WELFARE; UNITED STATES;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLEGITIMACY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REWARD; SOCIAL WELFARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033041722     PISSN: 00147354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2991698     Document Type: Note

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