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Author: Wilcox, W. Bradford
Resulting in 6 citations.
1. Lerman, Robert I.
Price, Joseph P.
Wilcox, W. Bradford
Family Structure and Economic Success across the Life Course
Marriage and Family Review 53,8 (2017): 744-758.
Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01494929.2017.1316810
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Keyword(s): Family Income; Family Structure; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Life Course; Parents, Single

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This paper examines the role that family structure plays in long-run economic outcomes across the life course. Using nearly 30 years of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we find that youths who grow up with both biological parents earn more income, work more hours each week, and are more likely to be married themselves as adults, compared to children raised in single-parent families. Many of these differences continue to be statistically significant even after we control for family income experienced as an adolescent. In addition, the implied size of the income transfer that children growing up with a single parent to equalize lifetime economic outcomes would need – about $42,000 – is markedly larger than the income transfers now available to families in the United States.
Bibliography Citation
Lerman, Robert I., Joseph P. Price and W. Bradford Wilcox. "Family Structure and Economic Success across the Life Course." Marriage and Family Review 53,8 (2017): 744-758.
2. Lerman, Robert I.
Wilcox, W. Bradford
For Richer, for Poorer: How Family Structures Economic Success in America
Report, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Institute for Family Studies, October 2014.
Also: https://www.aei.org/publication/for-richer-for-poorer-how-family-structures-economic-success-in-america/
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Keyword(s): Childhood; Educational Attainment; Family Structure; Household Structure; Marriage; Socioeconomic Factors; Wage Differentials

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PART 2: The Role of Childhood Family Structure in Future Economic Success
PART 3: A Marriage Premium for Men and Women
PART 4: The Family Premium
Parts 2, 3, and 4 based on the NLSY97 and NLSY79
Bibliography Citation
Lerman, Robert I. and W. Bradford Wilcox. "For Richer, for Poorer: How Family Structures Economic Success in America." Report, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Institute for Family Studies, October 2014.
3. Wang, Wendy
Wilcox, W. Bradford
First Comes Marriage or the Baby Carriage? The Connection Between the Sequencing of Marriage and Parenthood and Millennial Parents' Economic Well-being
Presented: Denver CO, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2018
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Economic Well-Being; Marriage; Parenthood

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A record 55% of Millennial parents ages 28 to 34 have put childbearing before marriage--more than double the share among the Baby Boomers (25%) when they were parents at the same age. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 (NLSY97), we examine the link between the sequencing of marriage and parenthood and economic well-being among young adults ages 28 to 34. Our findings suggest that young adults who put marriage before any childbearing are much more likely to avoid poverty and find themselves at least in the middle class, compared with their peers who have children before or outside marriage, and even compared with their peers who have not married. Further analysis reveals that the number of children Millennials have and their living arrangements are major factors that help to explain differences in economic outcomes.
Bibliography Citation
Wang, Wendy and W. Bradford Wilcox. "First Comes Marriage or the Baby Carriage? The Connection Between the Sequencing of Marriage and Parenthood and Millennial Parents' Economic Well-being." Presented: Denver CO, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2018.
4. Wang, Wendy
Wilcox, W. Bradford
The Millennial Success Sequence: Marriage, Kids, and the 'Success Sequence' among Young Adults
Report, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Institute for Family Studies, June 2017.
Also: http://www.aei.org/publication/millennials-and-the-success-sequence-how-do-education-work-and-marriage-affect-poverty-and-financial-success-among-millennials/
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Keyword(s): Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Educational Attainment; Family Formation; Labor Force Participation; Life Course; Marriage; Poverty; Socioeconomic Status (SES)

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[Extracted from Executive Summary]: A record 55% of Millennial parents (ages 28-34) have put childbearing before marriage, according to a new analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics' Panel data by the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies. As the oldest of the nation's largest generation, these Millennials were born between 1980 and 1984 and were surveyed between 2013 and 2014, in the latest wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97). By comparison, when the youngest Baby Boomers (born between 1957 and 1964) were the same age and became parents, only a quarter of them had their first child before marriage...These divergent paths toward adulthood are associated with markedly different economic fortunes among Millennials. Young adults who put marriage first are more likely to find themselves in the middle or upper third of the income distribution, compared to their peers who have not formed a family and especially compared to their peers who have children before marrying.
Bibliography Citation
Wang, Wendy and W. Bradford Wilcox. "The Millennial Success Sequence: Marriage, Kids, and the 'Success Sequence' among Young Adults." Report, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Institute for Family Studies, June 2017.
5. Wilcox, W. Bradford
Wang, Wendy
Mincy, Ronald B.
Black Men Making It in America: The Engines of Economic Success for Black Men in America
Report, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Institute for Family Studies, June 26, 2018.
Also: http://www.aei.org/publication/black-men-making-it-in-america-the-engines-of-economic-success-for-black-men-in-america/
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Keyword(s): Black Studies; Criminal Justice System; Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Marital Status; Military Service; Religious Influences; Socioeconomic Status (SES)

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This report examines black men's economic standing, the institutional engines of black men's success, the importance of individual agency, and contact with the criminal justice system.
Bibliography Citation
Wilcox, W. Bradford, Wendy Wang and Ronald B. Mincy. "Black Men Making It in America: The Engines of Economic Success for Black Men in America." Report, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Institute for Family Studies, June 26, 2018.
6. Wilcox, W. Bradford
Wolfinger, Nicholas H.
Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos
New York: Oxford University Press, 2016
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Keyword(s): Ethnic Studies; General Social Survey (GSS); Marriage; Minorities; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth); National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG); National Survey of Religion and Family Life (NSRFL); Racial Studies; Religion; Sexual Activity

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*Features qualitative interviews and fieldwork across the country as well as national data
*Explores the relationship between religion and family life
*Examines the largely-ignored element of lived religion in minority communities
Bibliography Citation
Wilcox, W. Bradford and Nicholas H. Wolfinger. Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.