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Title: Why Do Millennials Have Kids Before Marriage? Jobs
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1. Luscombe, Belinda
Why Do Millennials Have Kids Before Marriage? Jobs
Time, Online Edition, July 14, 2016.
Also: http://time.com/4405169/millennials-marriage-kids-jobs-income-inequality/
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Time Inc.
Keyword(s): Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Cohabitation; First Birth; Job Patterns; Marriage; Parents, Single; Wage Differentials

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Single motherhood is growing faster among individuals with a moderate level of education than it is among the very poor or those who have a college degree. And a prominent sociologist thinks he knows why: those are the people who have suffered the biggest loss of job opportunity since the 1980s. [News media article highlighting research by Cherlin, Ribar, and Yasutake: "Nonmarital First Births, Marriage, and Income Inequality," American Sociological Review, 14 July 2016]
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Luscombe, Belinda. "Why Do Millennials Have Kids Before Marriage? Jobs." Time, Online Edition, July 14, 2016.