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Teen Pregnancy Prevention

In: Targeting Investments in Children: Fighting Poverty When Resources Are Limited

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  • Melissa Schettini Kearney, 2010. "Teen Pregnancy Prevention," NBER Chapters, in: Targeting Investments in Children: Fighting Poverty When Resources Are Limited, pages 221-247, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    3. Heiland, Frank & Korenman, Sanders & Smith, Rachel A., 2019. "Estimating the educational consequences of teenage childbearing: Identification, heterogeneous effects and the value of biological relationship information," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 33(C), pages 15-28.

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