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Aassve, Arnstein |
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Economic Resources and Single Motherhood: Incidence and Resolution of Premarital Childbearing among Young American Women MPIDR Working Paper No. 2000-015, Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research, December 2000. Also: http://www.demogr.mpg.de/Papers/Working/wp-2000-015.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Keyword(s): Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Earnings; Family Formation; Fathers, Absence; Fertility; Household Composition; Maternal Employment; Parents, Single; Wage Rates; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper analyses the impact of economic resources on the likelihood of out-ofwedlock childbearing and the consequent family formation behaviour after such an event. The analysis is undertaken by specifying a multi-state, multi-spell duration model, with dynamic interactions. The results suggest that the economic resources which young women face are indeed important, not only as determinants of premarital childbearing, but also for how out-of-wedlock childbearing is resolved. Simulations indicates that welfare generosity and family resources are the most important determinants, whereas personal earnings potential plays a less important role. |
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Aassve, Arnstein. "Economic Resources and Single Motherhood: Incidence and Resolution of Premarital Childbearing among Young American Women." MPIDR Working Paper No. 2000-015, Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research, December 2000. |