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Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1357–1379.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Wolfgang Frimmel; Martin Halla; Rudolf Winter-Ebmer Abstract Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, one must distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy ( marginal marriage...
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Magic Moment? Maternal Marriage for Children Born Out of Wedlock
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1345–1356.
Published: 03 July 2014
... 2014 Marriage Divorce Nonmarital childbearing Race and ethnicity Policies that have promoted marriage for parents with an out-of-wedlock birth have rested on two tacit assumptions. The first is that the likelihood a child experiences a marriage between his or her biological parents...
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Unemployment, Nonstandard Employment, and Fertility: Insights From Japan’s “Lost 20 Years”
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2301–2329.
Published: 02 October 2017
... and men who are not employed in the primary labor market. This is not particularly problematic for our descriptive standardization exercise, but it does preclude direct evaluation of predictions from the theoretical models motivating our analyses. In light of ongoing policy efforts to promote marriage...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1219–1246.
Published: 09 July 2019
... to marry. Given the interest in marriage promotion policies, targeting low-income individuals in countries such as the United Kingdom, it is important to examine whether those unlikely to marry would be happier if they did marry. To address these selection processes, we use propensity score–weighted...
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View articletitled, Mind the “Happiness” Gap: The Relationship Between Cohabitation, <span class="search-highlight">Marriage</span>, and Subjective Well-being in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Norway
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The living arrangements of new unmarried mothers
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 415–433.
Published: 01 August 2002
... strongly related to living arrangements, are often not available in large-scale surveys and may represent an important source of omitted variable bias in models that seek to relate living arrangements to outcomes. These results suggest that although marriage- promotion policies may have some success...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 247–266.
Published: 01 February 2022
... benefits to promote marriage and fertility. Substantial research has explored whether and how family policies affect individual- and country-level marital and fertility rates ( Adjei and Billingsley 2017 ; Bitler et al. 2004 ; Gauthier 2007 ; Thévenon 2011 ; Yoon 2017 ). However, the effectiveness...
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View articletitled, Family <span class="search-highlight">Policy</span> Awareness and Marital Intentions: A National Survey Experimental Study
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Destroyed by Slavery? Slavery and African American Family Formation Following Emancipation
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1587–1609.
Published: 14 September 2018
... targeted during Clinton-era debates over welfare reform, and the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act contained several provisions specifically aimed at teenage mothers (Weinstein 1998 ). President George W. Bush championed marriage promotion policies and funded the African...
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Marriage or dissolution? Union transitions among poor cohabiting women
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 223–240.
Published: 01 May 2006
... cities (Cherlin and Fomby 2004; Harknett and McLanahan 2004). Our focus on poor couples is propitious in light of current welfare policy debates on marriage promotion and healthy marriage. THEORY AND RESEARCH In 2000, 4.9 million households were headed by unmarried opposite-sex couples, a number...
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Policy-Induced Fertility Suppression and Marital Satisfaction: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in China
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 2027–2051.
Published: 01 December 2024
... satisfaction among women ( Twenge et al. 2003 ). These seemingly conflicting effects depend on how institutional and cultural factors shape the beneficiaries and bearers of the utility and cost of childbearing within marriage. Hence, the policy implications of this study highlight the urgency of promoting...
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The impact of welfare reform on marriage and divorce
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 213–236.
Published: 01 May 2004
... married relative to being single. Policies that enhance men s earnings opportunities may therefore promote marriage and decrease divorce. The empirical literature has typically found that better labor-market opportunities for women are negatively associated with marriage rates suggesting...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2345–2370.
Published: 27 November 2018
... the government-promoted age of late marriage, 25 for men and 23 for women. 5 Column 6 in Table 5 reports the estimates for the youngest cohort. Both northern men and northern women were more likely to marry before the age of late marriage. Apparently, the heating policy did encourage people to marry earlier...
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View articletitled, Nonlabor Income and Age at <span class="search-highlight">Marriage</span>: Evidence From China’s Heating <span class="search-highlight">Policy</span>
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The Evolution of Family Complexity from the Perspective of Nonmarital Children
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 957–982.
Published: 14 June 2011
... families. This raises issues not only for child support policy and marriage promotion policy but also for tax and income support policies for which family structure is important in determining eligibility. The prevalence of multiple-partner fertility and the resulting complex relationships within...
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Reassessing Chronic Strain: A Research Note on Women's Income Dynamics After Divorce and Separation
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 597–613.
Published: 01 June 2024
... source of gender inequality in modern societies ( England 2000 ). Gender differences in the economic consequences of divorce mirror gender inequality in marriage ( Catlett and McKenry 1996 ) and have posed questions for policy: how to protect divorced women's income position and, more fundamentally, what...
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The Economic Foundations of Cohabiting Couples’ Union Transitions
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 535–557.
Published: 22 February 2018
... relative to a standard associated with marriage strongly predict marriage. For dissolution, couples with higher and more equal earnings are significantly less likely to separate. Findings demonstrate that within-couple earnings equality promotes stability, and between-couple inequalities in economic...
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Union formation in fragile families
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 237–261.
Published: 01 May 2004
... in nonmarital childbearing since 1970, college-educated women have experienced little increase (Ellwood and Jencks 2002). Finally, fragile families are of great interest to policy makers. The Bush administration has proposed spending more than $1 billion over five years on programs to promote healthy marriages...
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Trends in reproductive behavior among young single women in Colombia and Peru: 1985–1999
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 659–673.
Published: 01 November 2003
... among single women aged 15 24. Despite their many differences, Colombia and Peru are similar in certain key demo- graphic, health, and policy indicators that have special relevance to the topic under inves- tigation. Fertility, age at marriage, and the overall prevalence of contraceptive use...
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Fathers and absent fathers: Sociodemographic similarities in britain and the United States
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 217–228.
Published: 01 May 1998
..., Kraemer (1995) suggests that policies for children must promote secure attachments in order to promote residential fathering or involvement for nonresidential fathers. Although we acknowledge that most fathering takes place in intact two-parent first families, there is diversity in fatherhood today...
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Welfare reform and female headship
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 189–212.
Published: 01 May 2004
... reforms focused on work as a route out of dependence on welfare and toward economic self-sufficiency, policy makers were also concerned about demographic outcomes, including living ar- rangements, pregnancy, marriage, and cohabitation. Indeed, the stated goals of PRWORA included promoting marriage...
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Diverging destinies: How children are faring under the second demographic transition
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 607–627.
Published: 01 November 2004
... need policies that increase the returns to work and make it possible for men and women in the bottom strata to achieve the living stan- dard they associate with marriage. The Earned Income Tax Credit is one such policy. Subsidized child care and preschools also make work more rewarding, and good...
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The rising share of nonmarital births: Fertility choice or marriage behavior?
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 241–253.
Published: 01 May 2006
... 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2006 2006 Black Woman Total Birth Rate Unmarried Woman Marriage Rate Nonmarital Birth References Baughman , R. , & Dickert-Conlin , S. ( 2003 ). Did Expanding the EITC Promote Motherhood? . American Economic Review...
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