any significant advantage of legal marriage among young mothers. …

having children within rather than outside of marriage. We thus expect passage of MWPAs and MWEAs to reduce the likelihood … that single women become mothers of young children. We use probit regression to analyze individual data from the U …

the reform are consistent with hypotheses related to the improved financial situation of new mothers after the reform and …

children live with a never-married mother. Children of never-married mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, repeat … may be driven by other factors that affect marital status at birth, post-conception marriage decisions, and later child … outcomes, rather than causal effects of family structure. Given that changes in the availability of men in the marriage market …