Does Marriage Still Matter? Selected Supplemental Reading List
Does Marriage Still Matter? Selected Supplemental Reading List
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Edin, K. (2005). Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage. Berkeley: University of
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Edin, K. (2013). Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City. Berkley: University of California Press.
Eickmeyer, K. (2017). American Children’s Family Structure: Two Biological Parent Families. https://www.bgsu.edu/
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Graf, N. (2019, November). Key findings on marriage and cohabitation in the U.S. https://www.pewresearch.org/
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Kearney, M. & Levine, P. (2017, March). The “marriage premium for children” depends on family resources. https://
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Kearney, M. S. & Wilson, R. (2018, October). Male earnings, marriageable men, and nonmarital fertility: Evidence
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Parker, K. & Stepler, R. (2017, September). As U.S. marriage rate hovers at 50%, education gap in marital status
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Reeves, R. & Pulliam, W. (2020, March). Middle class marriage is declining, and likely deepening inequality.
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The National Marriage Project, The Wheatley Institution, & The School of Family Life. (2019). State of Our Unions
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VanOrman, A. & Carlson, M. (2017, April). Does Marriage Matter for Relationship Supportiveness After Childbirth?
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Wasserman, M. (2020). Disparate effects of family structure. The Future of Children, 30(No.1) 56-81. https://www.
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Watson, T. & Mc Lanahan, S. (2009, March). Marriage meets the Joneses: Relative income, identity, and marital
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Wilcox, W. B. & Wolfinger, N. H. (n.d.) Men & Marriage: Debunking the Ball and Chain Myth. https://ifstudies.org/blog/
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Wilcox, W. B. & Lerman, R. (2014, October). For richer, for poorer. How family structures economic success in
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