Over the past two decades, births to US teenagers have fallen and no longer follow overall
fertility patterns. Yet the unique challenges faced by teenage mothers and their families …

In 1972, Congress took another major step forward by requiring each state's Medicaid
program to include coverage of family planning services and supplies for all beneficiaries of …

Although teenage mothers have lower educational attainment and earnings than women
who delay fertility, causal interpretations of this relationship remain controversial. Scholars …

In the 21st century, the division of housework remains gendered, with women on average
still spending more time doing chores than their male partners. While research has studied …

Two main factors arguably account for the fact that the negative gradient of fertility by
educational attainment, which has been prevalent in developed countries in most of the 20th …

We provide new evidence on the education-fertility relationship by using EU-SILC panel
data on 24 European countries to investigate how couples' educational pairings predict their …

Public subsidies for contraception are often justified by assertions regarding their benefits for
women's lives, yet there is limited contemporary evidence supporting these assertions …

Despite pervasive evidence of more educated women having lower fertility, it remains
unclear whether education reduces women's fertility. This study presents new evidence of …

I study the effect of first-birth timing on women's wages, defining timing in terms of labor force
entry, rather than age. Considering the mechanisms by which timing may affect wages, each …

We examine the long-term outcomes for a population of teenage mothers who give birth to
their children around the end of high school. We compare the mothers whose high school …