The Problems of Disadvantaged Youth
An Economic Perspective
- Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Have We Learned About the Problems of and Prospects for Disadvantaged Youth?
Jonathan Gruber
I. Education
1. The Behavioral Consequences of Pre-Kindergarten Participation for Disadvantaged Youth
David Figlio and Jeffrey Roth
2. Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence from
Randomized Lotteries
Julie Berry Cullen and Brian A. Jacob
3. Would More Compulsory Schooling Help Disadvantaged Youth? Evidence from Recent Changes to School-Leaving Laws
Philip Oreopoulos
II. Health and Healthy Behaviors
4. Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital
Janet Currie and Mark Stabile
5. Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity: Is Nurture Trumping Nature?
Patricia M. Anderson, Kristin F. Butcher, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
6. Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Early Childbearing
Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine
III. Contextual Influences
7. Parental Income Shocks and Outcomes of Disadvantaged Youth in the United States
Marianne Page, Ann Huff Stevens, and Jason Lindo
8. The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth
Rajeev Dehejia, Thomas DeLeire, Erzo F. P. Luttmer, and Josh Mitchell
9. Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth
Anna Aizer
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
Economics and Business: Economics--General Theory and Principles | Health Economics
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