Marriage or dissolution? Union transitions among poor cohabiting women
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Marriage or dissolution? Union transitions among poor cohabiting women.
The objective of this paper is to identify the incentives and barriers to marriage among cohabiting women, especially disadvantaged mothers who are targets of welfare reform. We use the newly released cohabitation data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979-2000), which tracks the partners of cohabiting women across survey waves. Our results support several conclusions. First, coh...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demography
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0070-3370,1533-7790
DOI: 10.1353/dem.2006.0016