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1.	America's Promise Alliance
1.	Every Child Every Promise: Turning Failure into Action Report from America's Promise Alliance, Washington DC, Child Trends, 2006. Also: http://www.americaspromise.org/Our-Work/~/media/Files/About/ECEP%20-%20Full%20Report.ashx Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Child Trends, Inc. Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Development; Children; Cognitive Ability; Cognitive Development; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Human Capital; I.Q.; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Life Cycle Research; Parental Influences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Skill Formation; Skills […M]illions of America's young people are not receiving nearly enough of the resources they need to become successful adults — or to ensure America's continued prosperity in the years ahead. We also know a significant proportion of young people do not believe that they will achieve their goals and aspirations. In fact, we estimate that more than two-thirds of our children and youth — 34 million Americans between ages 6 and 17 — are not receiving sufficient developmental resources that put them on a path to success in adulthood. Investing in Our Young People — involves an econometric analysis by University of Chicago economists Dr. James Heckman, a Nobel Laureate, and Flavio Cunha. Investing in Our Young People analyzes data from the landmark National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1979 (NLSY79) to determine the most effective way to invest in our young people. Heckman and Cunha identified low achieving white girls from the 1979 study who later became mothers of boys. Then they examined in detail the "investments" in cognitive and non-cognitive skills that the mothers' children had received, particularly family investments.
	Bibliography Citation America's Promise Alliance. "Every Child Every Promise: Turning Failure into Action." Report from America's Promise Alliance, Washington DC, Child Trends, 2006.

2.	Hair, Elizabeth Catherine Scott, Elizabeth McPhee, Cameron Moore, Kristin Anderson Brown, Brett V. Kinukawa, Akemi Garrett, Sarah Bracey
2.	Disconnected Youth: The Influence of Family, Programs, Peers, and Communities on Becoming Disconnected and on Re-Connecting Child Trends Report Prepared for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. Washington, DC, October 2005. Also: http://www.teenfutures.net/sites/default/files/resources/Disconnected%20Youth%20Report.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Child Trends, Inc. Keyword(s): Demography; Disconnected Youth; Family Influences; Health Factors; Poverty; Racial Differences; School Dropouts; Transition, Adulthood; Unemployment, Youth; Work Attachment; Youth Problems Introduction: The transition to adulthood has many bumps in the road. However, for some youth, this transition is especially difficult. Such youth may become disengaged from the worlds of school and work for a lengthy period of time. These youth are often referred to as disconnected. In this research brief, we analyze newly available data that allow us to track for four years the experiences of youth ages 12 to 16 in 1997.
	Bibliography Citation Hair, Elizabeth Catherine, Elizabeth Scott, Cameron McPhee, Kristin Anderson Moore, Brett V. Brown, Akemi Kinukawa and Sarah Bracey Garrett. "Disconnected Youth: The Influence of Family, Programs, Peers, and Communities on Becoming Disconnected and on Re-Connecting." Child Trends Report Prepared for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. Washington, DC, October 2005.

3.	Moore, Kristin Anderson Sacks, Vanessa Harbin Manlove, Jennifer S. Sawhill, Isabel V.
3.	What If You Earned a Diploma and Delayed Parenthood? Intergenerational Simulations of Delayed Childbearing and Increased Education Research Brief 2014-27, Child Trends, June 2014. Also: http://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014-27SocialGenomeDelayChildbearing.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Child Trends, Inc. Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Childbearing; Children, Well-Being; Economic Well-Being; Educational Attainment; High School Diploma; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers, Adolescent This brief reports the results of using the Social Genome Model to provide a better understanding of how delaying childbearing and improving the educational attainment of teen mothers in one generation can be linked to the improved economic well-being of their children. This brief specifically reports results from "What if" simulations, in which teen mothers' age at their first birth was increased by two or five years and in which the mothers earn a high school diploma. The implications of these changes on the life of the mothers' children are estimated through childhood and up to age 29.
	Bibliography Citation Moore, Kristin Anderson, Vanessa Harbin Sacks, Jennifer S. Manlove and Isabel V. Sawhill. "What If You Earned a Diploma and Delayed Parenthood? Intergenerational Simulations of Delayed Childbearing and Increased Education." Research Brief 2014-27, Child Trends, June 2014.

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