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| Costs | 1 |
| Females | 1 |
| Illegitimate Births | 1 |
| Marital Instability | 1 |
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| One Parent Family | 1 |
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| Journal of Marriage and the… | 1 |
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| White, Lynn K. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedWhite, Lynn K. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1979
Demonstrates that levels of illegitimacy are related to costs of illegitimacy. Illegitimacy is strongly associated with the opportunity structure for women. When marriage is a relatively temporary guarantee of support, incentives to marital childbearing are less. This is supported by consistently positive association between marital and nonmarital…
Descriptors: Costs, Females, Illegitimate Births, Marital Instability
