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Title: First Comes Marriage or the Baby Carriage? The Connection Between the Sequencing of Marriage and Parenthood and Millennial Parents' Economic Well-being
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Wang, Wendy Wilcox, W. Bradford |
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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 Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. 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. |
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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. |