The impacts of teenage childbearing on the mothers and the consequences of those impacts for government

Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 55-94

  Hotz, V Joseph ^a   McElroy, Susan Williams ^b   Sanders, Seth G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429452635-3     Document Type: Chapter

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