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Title: Costs of Economic Uncertainty: Child Well-Being in Cohabiting and Remarried Unions Following Parental Divorce
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1. Morrison, Donna Ruane
Costs of Economic Uncertainty: Child Well-Being in Cohabiting and Remarried Unions Following Parental Divorce
Presented: Los Angeles, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, March 2000
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Marital Disruption; Marital Status; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading)

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INTRODUCTION EXCERPT: The present study takes a first step in addressing this issue [association between marital disruption and children's behavior problems and effect on academic achievement and competence] in a context, unlike most previous studies, that considers both the pre-disruption circumstances of mothers and children as well as the fluid nature of mothers' union statuses following the initial separation or divorce.
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Morrison, Donna Ruane. "Costs of Economic Uncertainty: Child Well-Being in Cohabiting and Remarried Unions Following Parental Divorce." Presented: Los Angeles, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, March 2000.