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Author: Lewin, Alisa
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1. Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincaid
Lewin, Alisa
Race and the Role of Economic Independence in Women's Marriage Formation
Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Economic Independence; Economics of Gender; Event History; Heterogeneity; Labor Market Demographics; Marriage; Racial Differences; Welfare

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Using a discrete-time event history methodology on the 1979-1990 panel of black and non-Hispanic white women from the NLSY we examine the hypothesis that the desirability of marriage is less for women with economic alternatives to marriage. First we investigate whether women in a better potential and actual labor-market position are less likely to marry. Then the paper goes on to analyze the role of welfare in marriage behavior, focusing on black women. We describe the heterogeneous nature of the cohorts' AFDC experience over the years and our event history analysis then explores the implications of this for marriage formation. We go on to examine the confounding of the effects of AFDC dependency and labor-market position. Finally, the paper investigates how attractive the marital.
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Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincaid and Alisa Lewin. "Race and the Role of Economic Independence in Women's Marriage Formation." Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995.