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100	1		_aTHOMAS, Adam _910634
245	1	0	_aFor richer or for poorer : _bmarriage ans an antipoverty strategy
260			_c2002
520	3		_aThis study examines the effects of changes in family structure on children's economic well-being. An initial shift-share analysis indicates that, had the proportion of children living in female-headed families remained constant since 1970, the 1998 level of 18.3 percent. The March 1999 Current Population Survey is then used to conduct a second analysis in which marriages are simulated between single mothers and demographically similar, unrelated males. The microsimulation analusis addresses some of the shortcomings of the shift-share approach by making it possible to account for the possibility of a shortage of marriageable men, to control for unobservable differences betwwen married mean and women and their unmarried counterparts, and to measure directly the effects of increases in marriage on the economic well-being of children. Results from the microsimulation analysis suggest that, had the proportion of children living in female-headed families remained constant since 1970, the child poverty rate would have been 3.4 percentage points lower than its actual 1998 level. Among children whose mother participated in a simulated marriage, the poverty rate would have fallen by almost two-thirds
700	1		_aSAWHILL, Isabel _918778
773	0	8	_tJournal of Policy Analysis and Management _g19, 4, p. 587-599 _d, 2002 _w
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998			_a20021218 _bLucima _cLucimara
998			_a20060525 _b1455^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c9642 _d9642
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