Entry or exit? A transition-probability approach to explaining the high prevalence of single motherhood among black women

Demography

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 369-376

  Rendall, Michael S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE PARENT; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CHILD; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTHERS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING STUDIES; SINGLE PARENT;

EID: 0033174290     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2648059     Document Type: Article

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