Do youth nonmarital childbearing choices reflect income and relationship expectations?

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-100

  Wolfe, Barbara ^a   Haveman, Robert ^a   Pence, Karen ^b   Schwabish, Jonathan A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

^c Macroeconomic Analysis Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Family planning; Nonmarital fertility; Teen births

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846477929     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-006-0109-4     Document Type: Article

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