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Title: Family Structure and Economic Success across the Life Course
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Lerman, Robert I. Price, Joseph P. Wilcox, W. Bradford |
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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 Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. 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. |
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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.
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