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Title: Income Inequality and Early Nonmarital Childbearing
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2014
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Abstract: Using individual- level data from the United States, we empirically investigate the role of lower- tail income inequality in determining rates of early nonmarital childbearing among low socioeconomic status (SES) women. We present robust evidence that young low- SES women are more likely to have a nonmarital birth when they live in places with larger lowertail income inequality, all else held constant. We calculate that differences in the level of inequality are able to explain a sizeable share of the geographic variation in teen fertility rates. We propose a model of adolescent decision-making that facilitates the interpretation of our results.
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Authors: Kearney, Melissa S.; Levine, Phillip B.
Periodical (Full): Journal of Human Resources
Issue: 1
Volume: 49
Pages: 1-31
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Family and Marriage, Other, Poverty and Welfare
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