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Direct linkFinlay, Keith; Neumark, David – Journal of Human Resources, 2010
Never-married motherhood is associated with worse educational outcomes for children. But this association may reflect other factors that also determine family structure, rather than causal effects. We use incarceration rates for men as instrumental variables in estimating the effect of never-married motherhood on the high school dropout rate of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Marriage
