| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w17157 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 17157 |
| Income Inequality and Early Non-Marital Childbearing: An Economic Exploration of the \"Culture of Despair\" | |
| Melissa Schettini Kearney; Phillip B. Levine | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-06-23 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Using individual-level data from the United States and a number of other developed countries, we empirically investigate the role of income inequality in determining rates of early, non-marital childbearing among low socioeconomic status (SES) women. We present robust evidence that low SES women are more likely to give birth at a young age and outside of marriage when they live in more unequal places, all else held constant. Our results suggest that inequality itself, as opposed to other correlated geographic factors, drives this relationship. We calculate that differences in the level of inequality are able to explain a sizeable share of the geographic variation in teen fertility rates both across U.S. states and across developed countries. We propose a model of economic "despair" that facilitates the interpretation of our results. It reinterprets the sociological and ethnographic literature that emphasizes the role of economic marginalization and hopelessness into a parsimonious framework that captures the concept of "despair" with an individual's perception of economic success. Our empirical results are consistent with the idea that income inequality heightens a sense of economic despair among those at the bottom of the distribution. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w17157 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574832 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Melissa Schettini Kearney,Phillip B. Levine. Income Inequality and Early Non-Marital Childbearing: An Economic Exploration of the \"Culture of Despair\". 2011. |
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