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Title: Childhood Family Structure, Child Support, and Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men
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Gray, Jeffrey S. Beller, Andrea H. Graham, John W. |
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Childhood Family Structure, Child Support, and Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Child Support; Childhood Residence; Children, Home Environment; Family Structure; Fathers, Absence; Labor Market Outcomes; Modeling, Probit; Parents, Single; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. An alarming trend among families in the U.S. is the increase in the percentage of children living with only one parent, usually their mother. In this paper, we investigate empirically the direct effect of the absence of at least one parent from the household during childhood on the labor market outcomes--earnings and employment--of young black and white men, paying particular attention to the effect of child support payments. Employing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) for 1990 and 1994, we apply OLS estimation to the natural logarithm of earnings and probit to the probability of being in the labor force. Preliminary findings indicate that living in a non-intact family as a child has a direct negative effect on the wages of young men, especially for whites. |
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Gray, Jeffrey S., Andrea H. Beller and John W. Graham. "Childhood Family Structure, Child Support, and Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997. |