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Author: Sullivan, Timothy Sean

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1.	Besharov, Douglas J. Sullivan, Timothy Sean
1.	Welfare Reform and Marriage The Public Interest 125 (Fall 1996): 81-94. Also: http://www.nationalaffairs.com/public_interest/detail/welfare-reform-and-marriage Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: National Affairs Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Marriage; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. If divorced mothers frequently marry, what about unwed mothers, especially those who had their first babies as teenagers? We could find only one study on the subject, so we decided to explore this question ourselves using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The NLSY began in 1979 as a national sample of 12,686 males and females, ages 14 to 22. The NLSY collects longitudinal data on both the fertility and marriage of young women and tracks enough unwed teenage mothers to allow for statistically reliable analyses of various social, economic, and demographic factors. Importantly, it contains a relatively recent cohort of unwed mothers. We created a subsample of young women whose childbearing and marital histories we could follow: 2,783 women who were still participating in the survey in 1993 and who, at the time of the first interview in 1979, were under 20, had never been married, and had never given birth. Starting with 1979, we followed each of these women through subsequent surveys until they were 28 years old, between 1988 and 1993.
	Bibliography Citation Besharov, Douglas J. and Timothy Sean Sullivan. "Welfare Reform and Marriage." The Public Interest 125 (Fall 1996): 81-94.

2.	Sullivan, Timothy Sean
2.	Ex Ante Divorce Probability and Marital-Specific Investment: Three Applications Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland College Park, 1995 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Demography; Divorce; Economics of Gender; Family Studies; Home Ownership; Household Models; Household Structure; Migration Patterns; Mobility; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) The recent increase in the United States divorce rate has coincided with many other fundamental changes in the behavior of married households, including decreases in home ownership and geographic mobility and changes in the labor market decisions made by spouses. This study uses the theory of match-specific investment to argue that the increasing divorce rate may be partly responsible for these changes. A theoretical model is developed which illustrates the role divorce probability plays in the marital-specific investment decision. Couples with higher divorce probabilities are predicted to make fewer specific investments. Empirical tests of this hypothesis, using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics in a simultaneous equations framework, find that couples with higher divorce probabilities are less likely to own and purchase homes, and are less likely to migrate. No significant relationship is found, using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, between divorce probability and market- training decisions.
	Bibliography Citation Sullivan, Timothy Sean. Ex Ante Divorce Probability and Marital-Specific Investment: Three Applications. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland College Park, 1995.

3.	Sullivan, Timothy Sean
3.	Teenage, Out-of-Wedlock, Childbearing and Marriage: The Experience of the NLSY Cohort American Enterprise Institute Conference, May 1996 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Marriage; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.
	Bibliography Citation Sullivan, Timothy Sean. "Teenage, Out-of-Wedlock, Childbearing and Marriage: The Experience of the NLSY Cohort." American Enterprise Institute Conference, May 1996.

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