Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/91978 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
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ISER Working Paper Series No. 2008-23
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University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
U.S. public policy promotes both marriage and labor market participation as strategies for improving the economic welfare of low-income women and their children. Here I compare womens economic gains from marriage, cohabitation and employment. Using data from the NLSY79, I estimate a fixed-effects model of household income (adjusted for household composition). I find that among poor women (those who ever received welfare), the log household income of single, nonemployed women would increase by 0.80 if they enter a cohabiting union, 1.04 if they marry, 0.76 if they work part-time (1000 hours/year), and 1.16 if they work full-time (2000 hours/year).
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Working Paper

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