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Title: Marrying, Unmarrying, and Poverty Dynamics among Mothers with Children Living at Home
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Mauldin, Teresa A. Mimura, Yoko |
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Marrying, Unmarrying, and Poverty Dynamics among Mothers with Children Living at Home Journal of Family and Economic Issues 28,4 (December 2007): 566-582. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/fk37722vvn6701g7/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Keyword(s): Child Development; Discrimination; Domestic Violence; Economics of Gender; Family Structure; Fertility; Marital Dissolution; Marriage; Poverty Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using the two-way transitions model and a sample of mothers with children living at home who experienced poverty, we examined how the changes in mothers' marital status relate to the odds of exiting and reentering poverty. The data came from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort (1979-1998). This study found an asymmetric association between poverty dynamics and becoming unmarried. Becoming unmarried was associated with increased odds of both getting out of poverty and reentering poverty, where the magnitude of the latter is greater than that of the former, when family background, family characteristics, and human capital and employment factors are controlled. |
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Mauldin, Teresa A. and Yoko Mimura. "Marrying, Unmarrying, and Poverty Dynamics among Mothers with Children Living at Home." Journal of Family and Economic Issues 28,4 (December 2007): 566-582.
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