The Rising Share of Nonmarital Births: Fertility Choices or Marriage Behavior?
| dc.contributor.author | Gray, Jo Anna | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stockard, Jean | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stone, Joe A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2005-03-22T23:16:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2005-03-22T23:16:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004-11-01 | |
| dc.description | 33 p. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Much of the sharp rise in the share of nonmarital births in the United States has been attributed to changes in the fertility choices of unmarried and married women - in response, it is often argued, to various public policies. In contrast, we develop and test a model that attributes the rise to changes in marriage behavior, with no changes in fertility. A variety of empirical tests strongly supports this conclusion and invites focused attention to issues related to marriage behavior, as well as the interactions between marriage and fertility. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 237256 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/664 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon, Dept of Economics | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Oregon Economics Department Working Papers; 2004-17 | |
| dc.subject | Fertility | en |
| dc.subject | Illegitimacy ratio | en |
| dc.subject | Marriage | en |
| dc.subject | Non-marital fertility ratio | en |
| dc.subject | Non-marital births | en |
| dc.title | The Rising Share of Nonmarital Births: Fertility Choices or Marriage Behavior? | en |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en |