Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Deteriorating Status of America's Children: Facts and Implications
Chapter 2. Toward Understanding the Determinants of Children's Success
Chapter 3. A Tour of Research Studies
Chapter 4. Investments in Children: Some Simple Relationships
Chapter 5. The Deteminants of Educational Attainment: High School and Beyond
Chapter 6. The Determinants of Teenage Out-of-Wedlock Births and Welfare Recipiency
Chapter 7. The Determinants of Economic Inactivity
Chapter 8. Our Findings and Some Policy Implications
Appendix A. Our Data on Children and Young Adults
Appendix B. The Economic Structure of the Bivariate Probit Models of Chapters 5, 6, and 7
References
Index