than fathers report. Parents who remain in a continuous coresidential union, who transition from cohabitation to marriage …

, 45 percent of British children were born outside of marriage, up from 8 percent in 1971. A similar trend appears in the …’ contributions over time? How do children fare, and how do family structure and stability influence the quality of mothers’ parenting …

Married men earn more than unmarried men. Previous research suggests that marriage itself causes some of the difference …, but includes few men who fathered children out of wedlock. This paper asks whether increasing marriage (and possibly … years after their child’s birth. Results provide some support for the idea that increasing marriage will lead to increased …

We draw on three waves of the Fragile Families Study (N = 2,249) to examine family stability among a recent birth …, paternal substance abuse, prior marriage, and having children from prior unions account for the higher instability faced by … quality, or family complexity. …

The context of family life has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. Today, over 40 percent of children in the U …

Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that … people are more likely to marry when their incomes approach a financial level associated with idealized norms of marriage. We … hypothesize that the marriage ideal is determined by the median income in an individual’s local reference group. After controlling …

We draw on three waves of the Fragile Families Study (N = 2,249) to examine family stability among a recent birth …, paternal substance abuse, prior marriage, and having children from prior unions account for the higher instability faced by … quality, or family complexity. …

Existing research shows that marriage and marital stability are positively associated with health and well-being. Thus … possible health effects associated with changes in family formation. Using latent trajectory models and data from the Fragile …

Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that … people are more likely to marry when their incomes approach a financial level associated with idealized norms of marriage. We … hypothesize that the marriage ideal is determined by the median income in an individual’s local reference group. After controlling …