The effects of teenage fatherhood on young adult outcomes

Economic Inquiry

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 182-201

  Fletcher, Jason M ^a,b   Wolfe, Barbara L ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FATHER; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INCOME; LEGAL ASPECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORK;

ADOLESCENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FATHERS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INCOME; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORK;

EID: 84855444020     PISSN: 00952583     EISSN: 14657295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2011.00372.x     Document Type: Article

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