household income; husband’s unemployment and perceived financial stress; young age at marriage; separation of parents; second …-plus marriage; and resident children born before marriage. …

Low income men are at particular risk for experiencing adverse health conditions such as depression which may reduce … involvement with their children. Low income men may also face significant challenges in becoming and remaining involved with their …

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 …

. Interviews with the unmarried men showed they blamed their failure to marry on poverty and the ease with which local women can … women will continue to migrate away from rural areas in far larger numbers than men. … settling permanently in cities. However, urban registration can be acquired through marriage and many rural females now acquire …

This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men’s earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian …