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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 451–478.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Kristen Harknett; Lisa A. Gennetian Abstract Using data from an experimental evaluation in two Canadian provinces, we found that offering an earnings supplement to single mothers in place of welfare altered rates of marriage and cohabitation, but that the direction of the effects varied by province...
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Demography (1998) 35 (3): 259–278.
Published: 01 August 1998
.... 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1998 1998 BEYOND SINGLE MOTHERS: COHABITATION AND MARRIAGE IN THE AFDC PROGRAM* ROBERT A. MOFFITT, ROBERTREVILLE, AND ANNE E.WINKLER Weinvestigate the extent and implications ofcohabitation and marriage among U.S. welfare recipients...
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1377–1402.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Susan Harkness Abstract This study examines how motherhood earnings penalties in combination with the cost of partner absence affect single mothers' economic well-being. Using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for 1990–2015 and fixed-effects models with individual-specific...
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Demography (1998) 35 (1): 125–131.
Published: 01 February 1998
...Rebecca A. London Abstract I examine trends in single mothers’ living arrangements using data from the 1970–1995 Current Population Surveys. I create a consistent trend by correcting a coding problem that stemmed from the misidentification of children living in multigenerational households before...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 719–746.
Published: 09 March 2012
...David Brady; Rebekah Burroway Abstract We examine the influence of individual characteristics and targeted and universal social policy on single-mother poverty with a multilevel analysis across 18 affluent Western democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all countries...
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 649–674.
Published: 05 May 2016
... of emotional well-being, although single parenthood is associated with differences in the emotional valence. Single mothers report less happiness and more sadness, stress, and fatigue in parenting than partnered mothers, and these reports are concentrated among those single mothers who are not employed...
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in Single Motherhood and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Life Course Perspective
> Demography
Published: 10 July 2013
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in Single Motherhood and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Life Course Perspective
> Demography
Published: 10 July 2013
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in Targeting, Universalism, and Single-Mother Poverty: A Multilevel Analysis Across 18 Affluent Democracies
> Demography
Published: 09 March 2012
Fig. 1 The association between universal replacement rate and single-mother poverty rate across 18 affluent Western democracies circa 2000 ( r = –.64)
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Published: 29 July 2015
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in Targeting, Universalism, and Single-Mother Poverty: A Multilevel Analysis Across 18 Affluent Democracies
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Published: 09 March 2012
Fig. 2 The association between targeting ratio and single-mother poverty rate across 18 affluent Western democracies circa 2000 ( r = .22)
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1521–1549.
Published: 10 July 2013
...Fig. 2 Cumulative risk of becoming a single mother, by age ...
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 393–418.
Published: 24 February 2016
... remains scant. To address this gap, I use the timing and characteristics of welfare-reform policies implemented during the 1990s and fixed-effects, instrumental variable regression modeling to show that policies seeking to increase LFP rates for low-skilled single mothers inadvertently led to labor force...
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1415–1435.
Published: 14 August 2020
...Andrew J. Bibler Abstract Recent research has documented the relatively poor performance of boys, especially those from single-mother households, on a number of outcomes. Differences in noncognitive skills are often cited as a main contributing factor. However, we still know little about...
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Demography (1985) 22 (3): 381–394.
Published: 01 August 1985
...Marta Tienda; Jennifer Glass Abstract This paper investigates whether the inclusion of nonnuclear adults in a household facilitates the labor force participation of single and married mothers. Results based on a sample of extended and nuclear households show that the extension mechanism facilitates...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 153–182.
Published: 29 January 2015
... distinguish partners by biological parentage of the firstborn child. Net of controls for education, race/ethnicity, and family background, single mothers who enter into stable marriages with either a biological father or stepfather experience significant wealth advantages over time (more than $2,500 per year...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1303–1326.
Published: 17 June 2019
... whether policy-induced expansions to the EITC affect the housing and living arrangements of single mothers. Results suggest that a $1,000 increase in the EITC improves housing by reducing housing cost burdens, but it has no effect on eviction or homelessness. Increases in the EITC also reduce doubling up...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 857–880.
Published: 12 April 2014
...Maria Cancian; Daniel R. Meyer Abstract We examine the effects of an increase in income on the cohabitation and marriage of single mothers. Using data from an experiment that resulted in randomly assigned differences in child support receipt for welfare-receiving single mothers, we find...
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 447–461.
Published: 01 August 2006
... outcomes. Moving out of a cohabiting stepfamily into a single-mother family was not harmful and was actually associated with improvements in school engagement. Moving into a cohabiting stepfamily from a single-mother family decreased adolescent well-being, and this impact was greater than that experienced...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 375–389.
Published: 01 August 2001
... in two subpopulations: single-mother families and elderly units. Major findings are that the effects of social capital differ between immigrant single-mother families and elderly units; the effects of social capital differ between the young-at-arrival elderly and the old-at-arrival elderly...
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