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Fragile Families and Children’s Opportunities
McLanahan, Sara - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2012
The context of family life has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. Today, over 40 percent of children in the U.S. are born to unmarried parents, up from only 5 percent in 1960. My research tries to understand why this change is happening and what it means for parents, children and...
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Positive, Negative, or Null? The Effects of Maternal Incarceration on Children’s Behavioral Problems
Wildeman, Christopher; Turney, Kristin - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2012
As maternal incarceration may help, harm, or have no effect on child wellbeing, increases in the risk of maternal imprisonment are relevant to scholars interested in both mass imprisonment and the forces that shape inequalities in child wellbeing. Unfortunately, with the exception of a few...
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ATTACHMENT SECURITY AMONG TODDLERS: THE IMPACTS OF SUPPORTIVE COPARENTING AND FATHER ENGAGEMENT
Pudasainee-Kapri, Sangita; Razza, Rachel - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2013
The present study examined the longitudinal associations among supportive coparenting and father engagement during infancy and mother-child attachment at age three within an at-risk sample (N= 1371), using secondary data from Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing (FFCW) study. Mothers reported on...
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But who will get Billy? : the effect of child custody laws on marriage
Rose, Elaina; Wong, Crystal Ho Po - 2014
to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of … the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law … data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non-neutrality, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434625
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Season of birth and marital outcomes
Oreffice, Sonia - 2014
This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387916
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Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments
Corno, Lucia - 2019
We study how aggregate economic conditions affect the timing of marriage, and particularly child marriage, in Sub …-Saharan Africa and in India. In both regions, substantial monetary or in-kind transfers occur with marriage: bride price across Sub …-Saharan Africa and dowry in India. In a simple equilibrium model of the marriage market in which parents choose when their children …
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Season of Birth and Marital Outcomes
Oreffice, Sonia - 2014
This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049742
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But Who Will Get Billy? The Effect of Child Custody Laws on Marriage
Rose, Elaina - 2014
to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of … the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law … data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non-neutrality, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043701
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Income shocks, bride price and child marriage in Turkey
Chort, Isabelle; Hotte, Rozenn; Marazyan, Karine - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride … first, the civil ceremony is delayed by 2 months on average. Our results suggest that girl marriage still participates to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198798
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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden
Bjorklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundstrom, Marianne - 2021
It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family is correlated with lower educational attainment....
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