Why is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States So High and Why Does It Matter?
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- 1 May 2012
- journal article
- Published by American Economic Association in Journal of Economic Perspectives
- Vol. 26 (2), 141-166
- https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.26.2.141
Abstract
Why Is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States So High and Why Does It Matter? by Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine. Published in volume 26, issue 2, pages 141-63 of Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2012, Why is the rate of teen childbearing is so unusually high in the Unit...This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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