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The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation, the downward trend in labor force participation, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or...
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children live with a never-married mother. Children of never-married mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, repeat …"One-third of children in the United States are born to unmarried parents. A substantial number of black and Hispanic … grades, and have behavioral problems than are children raised in more traditional family structures. But these relationships …
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children live with a never-married mother. Children of never-married mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, repeat …One-third of children in the United States are born to unmarried parents. A substantial number of black and Hispanic … grades, and have behavioral problems than are children raised in more traditional family structures. But these relationships …
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children live with a never-married mother. Children of never-married mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, repeat … the likelihood that children drop out of high school, focusing on blacks and Hispanics. Instrumental variables estimates … and child outcomes for blacks and Hispanics, at least for the children of women whose marriage decisions are most affected …
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This paper evaluates the effects of the earned income tax credit (EITC) on poor families. Exploiting state-level variation in EITCs, we find that the EITC helps families rise above poverty-level earnings. This occurs by inducing labor market entry in families that initially do not have an adult...
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