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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w23230 |
来源ID | Working Paper 23230 |
The Economics of Non-Marital Childbearing and The \u201cMarriage Premium for Children\u201d | |
Melissa S. Kearney; Phillip B. Levine | |
发表日期 | 2017-03-13 |
出版年 | 2017 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | A large literature exists on the impact of family structure on children’s outcomes, typically focusing on average effects. We build on this with an economic framework that has heterogeneous predictions regarding the potential benefit for children of married parents. We propose that the gains to marriage from a child’s perspective depend on a mother’s own level of resources, the additional net resources that her partner would bring, and the outcome-specific returns to resources. Data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics are consistent with the heterogeneous predictions of this framework. In terms of high school completion or avoiding poverty at age 25, the “marriage premium for children” is highest for children of mothers with high school degrees and mothers in their early/mid-20s. For the more advanced outcomes of college completion or high income at age 25, the marriage premium is monotonically increasing with observed maternal age and education. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23230 |
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/580904 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Melissa S. Kearney,Phillip B. Levine. The Economics of Non-Marital Childbearing and The \u201cMarriage Premium for Children\u201d. 2017. |
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