• Title of article

    A tale of two shares: The relationship between the “illegitimacy” ratio and the marriage share

  • Author/Authors

    Jo Anna Gray، نويسنده , , Jean Stockard، نويسنده , , Joe Stone، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    242
  • To page
    248
  • Abstract
    Our model implies a magnified effect of marriage rates on the illegitimacy ratio. For U.S. data, plots and regression estimates support the prediction that the share of unmarried births is driven by the square of the share of unmarried women.
  • Keywords
    Fertility , marriage , Non-marital births
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    435855

    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=10&DC=435855