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Title: Steady-State Inequality? Single Motherhood and Income
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McKeever, Matthew Wolfinger, Nicholas H. |
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Steady-State Inequality? Single Motherhood and Income Presented: Austin TX, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2019 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Family Structure; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Marital Status; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parents, Single Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A curious and unhappy feature of family demography is the stubborn persistence of poverty in mother-headed families. Between 1980 and 2017, the income gap between single-mother families and married-mother families barely changed. We explore the income dynamics of single motherhood using data from the NLSY79, focusing on different types of single-mother households. While differences remain using standard statistical models, fixed-effect models show that the unmeasured differences between divorced- and never-married mother-headed families are crucial for understanding income disparities. Controlling for these differences suggests that variation in income by family structure has more to do with the number of earners in a household than the characteristics of those workers. |
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McKeever, Matthew and Nicholas H. Wolfinger. "Steady-State Inequality? Single Motherhood and Income." Presented: Austin TX, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2019. |