This paper offers the first birth-cohort test of the Wilson-Willis model of black-white differences in nonmarital childbearing. Cohort data are uniquely suited to the model, and unlike prior evidence, support the power ...

We appreciate the opportunity to clarify and provide additional tests of the key elements of our age-period-cohort analysis of non-marital birth rates in this March 2009 issue of Social Forces. Where Steve Martin, in the ...