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child's years of schooling increases with maternal age at birth
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Why Do Children Born to Teenage Mothers Have Worse Lifetime Outcomes?

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 admin children, parenting, teen pregnancy, women

Children born to teenage mothers have worse outcomes—poorer health, less schooling, and lower earnings in adulthood. However, the cause of

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chart showing drop in ratio of men to women in France after WWI
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French Women in the Workforce and World War I—A Watershed Moment or a Parenthesis?

May 12, 2021May 12, 2021 admin labor, war, women, work

During World War I, 8 million French men were drafted, and 1.3 million of them died in combat. As a

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Graph: increased distance to clinic reduces abortions.
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When Abortion Clinics Close, Distance and Access Issues Reduce Abortions

August 13, 2019August 13, 2019 admin abortion, healthcare, women

The recent wave of new state restrictions on abortion accompanied by the closures of providers across the country are changing

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