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Title: Welfare, Marital Prospects, and Nonmarital Childbearing
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Rosenzweig, Mark R. |
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Welfare, Marital Prospects, and Nonmarital Childbearing Journal of Political Economy 107,6 (December 1999): S3-S32. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/250102 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Assortative Mating; Benefits; Children; Family Size; Fertility; Marriage; Women The roles of the entitlements of the AFDC program and marital prospects in the fertility and marriage choices of young women are assessed in the context of a model incorporating heritable endowment heterogeneity, assortative mating, concern for child quality, and potential parental and public support alternatives. Estimates based on data describing the fertility and marital experience up to age 23 of the eight birth cohorts of women in the NLSY provide evidence that higher AFDC benefit levels and lower marital prospects induce young women to choose to have a child outside of marriage. |
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Rosenzweig, Mark R. "Welfare, Marital Prospects, and Nonmarital Childbearing." Journal of Political Economy 107,6 (December 1999): S3-S32.
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