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Title: Married and Unmarried Parenthood and Economic Wellbeing: A Dynamic Analysis of a Recent Cohort
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Lerman, Robert I. |
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Married and Unmarried Parenthood and Economic Wellbeing: A Dynamic Analysis of a Recent Cohort Report to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, July 2002. Also: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/410540_Parenthood.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Urban Institute Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Cohabitation; Economic Well-Being; Family Income; Family Structure; Fertility; Marital Status; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, Random Effects; Poverty; Propensity Scores This paper examines the dynamics of marriage and family patterns and their relationship to living standards of a recent cohort of mothers. It is not obvious that married mothers should perform economically better than mother in cohabiting relationships or single mother living with at least one other adult. But marriage is likely to raise living standards if it is associated with family and income stability. Using a significantly raise both the level and stability of living standards experienced by mothers and their children. |
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Lerman, Robert I. "Married and Unmarried Parenthood and Economic Wellbeing: A Dynamic Analysis of a Recent Cohort." Report to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, July 2002. |