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Title: Can We Promote Child Well-Being by Promoting Marriage?
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Acs, Gregory P. |
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Can We Promote Child Well-Being by Promoting Marriage? Presented: Philadelphia, PA, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 30, 2005. Also: http://paa2005.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=51422 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Well-Being; Household Composition; Marriage; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Temperament; Turbulence Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Mother-Child files to examine how the relationships between children's well-being and their living arrangements are affected to by the quality of their parents' marriages and turbulence in their living arrangements. Using the future marital status of children's parents to measure the quality of parents' marriages, I find that children living with parents in a "poor" marriage have more behavioral problems than children living with parents in "good" marriages. Parental marriage quality does not affect children's math and reading scores. Interestingly, even children living with parents in a "poor" marriage have fewer behavioral problems and higher math and reading scores than children living with single mothers. Evidence on the impact of recent changes in living arrangements on child well-being is mixed. |
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Acs, Gregory P. "Can We Promote Child Well-Being by Promoting Marriage?." Presented: Philadelphia, PA, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 30, 2005. |