Marriage and women's earnings from work: Perspectives on tanf

Journal of Policy Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-47

  Mason, Susan E ^a   Caputo, Richard K ^a  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Income; Marital status; Policy; TANF; Wages; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247102521     PISSN: 15588742     EISSN: 15588750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J508v05n01_03     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Amott, T., and Mathaei, J., 1996. Race, gender, and work:A multi-cultural history of women in the United States, Boston:South End.
2. Barnett, R. C., and Rivers, C., 1996. She works, he works:How two-income families are happy, healthy and thriving, Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press.
3. Baum, I IC.L., 2002. A dynamic analysis of the effect of child care costs on the work decisions of low-income mothers with infants. Demography, 39(1):139–164.
4. Blau, F., 1998. Trends in the well-being of American women, 1970–1995. Journal of Economic Literature, 36:112–165.
5. Boo, K., August 18 2003. The marriage cure:Is wedlock really a way out of poverty, August 18, The New Yorker. Retrieved January 19, 2004 from http://www.newamerica.net/
6. Budig, M. J., and England, P. A., 2001. The wage penalty for motherhood. American Sociological Review, 66(2):204–225.
7. Burkhauser, R., and Salisbury, D., 1993. Pensions in a changing economy, Washington, DC:National Academy on Aging Employee Benefits Institute.
8. Caputo, R. K., 1997. Psychological, attitudinal, and socio-demographic correlates of economic well-being of mature women. Journal of Women and Aging, 9(4):37–53.
9. Caputo, R. K., 1998a. Discrimination and pension income among aging women. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 10(2):67–83.
10. Caputo, R. K., 1998b. Economic well-being in a youth cohort. Families in Society, 79:83–92.
11. Caputo, R. K., 2000. Race and marital history as correlates of women's access to family-friendly employee benefits. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 21:365–385.
12. Center for Human Resource Research. 1999. NLS Young Women's User's Guide, Author:The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
13. Center for Law and Social Policy. 2002. Summary of “Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2000,” introduced by Rep. Herger (H.R. 4090 substitute amendment), Washington, DC:Author. Retrieved August 12, 2002 from www.clasp.org/DMS/Documents/1019770291.11/view_html
14. Cobb-Clark, D. A., and Dunlop, Y., 1999. The role of gender in job promotions. Monthly Labor Review, (Dec.),:32–38.
15. Dolinsky, A. L., and Caputo, R. K., 2003. Health and female self-employment. Journal of Small Business Management, 41:233–241.
16. 2003. Economic Report of the President, Washington, DC:GPO.
17. Gorman, E. H., 2000. Marriage and money:The effect of marital status on attitudes toward pay and finances. Work and Occupations, 27(1):64–88.
18. Hattery, A., 2001. Women, work and family, balancing and weaving, Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage.
19. Hochschild, A. R., 1997. The time bind:When work becomes home and home becomes work, New York:Metropolitan Books.
20. Hofferth, S. L., 2002. “Effects of public and private policies on working after childbirth”. In Work and family:Research informing policy, Edited by:Parcel, T. L., and Cornfield, D. B., 131–159. Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage.
21. Johnson, W. R., and Skinner, J., 1986. Labor supply and marital separation. American Economic Review, 76(3):455–469.
22. Kposowa, A. J., 1998. The impact of race on divorce in the United States. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 29(3):529–544.
23. Leslie, L. A., Anderson, E. A., and Branson, M. P., 1991. Responsibility for children:The role of gender and employment. Journal of Family Issues, 12:197–210.
24. McCall, L., 2000. Gender and the new inequality:Explaining the college/non-college wage gap. American Sociological Review, 65(2):234–255.
25. McCall, L., 2001. Sources of racial wage inequality in Metropolitan labor markets:Racial, ethnic, and gender differences. American Sociological Review, 66(4):520–541.
26. Montalto, C. P., and Gerner, J. L., 1998. The effect of expected changes in marital status on labor supply decisions of women and men. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 28(3/4):25–51.
27. Morgan, L. A., 1991. After marriage ends:Economic consequences for midlife women, Newbury Park, CA:Sage.
28. Meyers, M. K., Heintze, T., and Wolf, D. A., 2002. Child care subsidies and the employment of welfare recipients. Demography, 39(1):165–179.
29. Ooms, T., 2002. Marriage plus. The American Prospect, 13(7) April 8 Retrieved August 12, 2002 from http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/7/ooms-t.html
30. Pencavel, J., 1998. The market work behavior and wages of women:1975–94. The Journal of Human Resources, 33(4):771–804.
31. Petcotich, A., and Churchill, G. A., 1981. An examination of the anticipated satisfaction importance valence controversy. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 27:213–226.
32. Peterson, R. R., 1996. A re-evaluation of the economic consequences of divorce. American Sociological Review, 61:528–536.
33. Powell, M. A., and Parcel, T. L., 1997. Effects of family structure on the earnings attainment process:Differences by gender. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 59(2):419–433.
34. Rank, M. R., and Hirschl, T. A., 1999. Estimating the proportion of Americans ever experiencing poverty during their elderly years. Journal of Gerontology:Social Sciences, 54B:5184–5193.
35. Sandberg, J. C., and Cornfield, D. B., 2000. “Returning to work:The impact of gender, family, and work on terminating a family or medical leave”. In Work and family, research informing policy, Edited by:Parcel, T. L., and Cornfield, D. B., 161–184. Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage.
36. Segura, D. A., 1994. “Working at motherhood:Chicana and Mexican immigrant mothers and employment”. In Mothering:Ideology, experience, and agency, Edited by:Glen, E. N., Nakano, E., Chang, G., and Forcey, L. R., 211–234. London:Routledge.
37. Seiler, N., 2002. Is teen marriage a solution, Washington, DC:Center for Law and Social Policy. Retrieved August 26, 2002 from http://www.clasp.org/Pubs/Pubs_Health
38. Smock, P. J., Gupta, S., and Manning, W. D., 1999. The effect of marriage and divorce on women's economic well-being. American Sociological Review, 64:794–812.
39. Stoesz, D., 2000. Poverty of imagination:Bootstrap capitalism, sequel to welfare reform, Madison, WI:University of Wisconsin Press.
40. Strober, M. H., and Chan, A. M.K., 1999. The road winds uphill all the way:Gender, work, and family in the United States and Japan, Cambridge, MA:MIT Press.
41. Stroup, A. L., and Pollock, G. E., 1999. Economic consequences of marital dissolution for Hispanics. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 30(1–2):149–166.
42. Census U.S. Bureau. 2000. Poverty status of the population in 1999 by age and sex, Washington, DC:Author. Retrieved August 12, 2002 from http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/gender/ppl-121/tab17.txt
43. Census U.S. Bureau. 2001a. Poverty in the United States 2000, Washington, DC:Author. Retrieved July 10, 2002 from http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p60–214.pdf
44. Census U.S. Bureau. 2001b. Historical poverty tables 2001, Washington, DC:Author. Retrieved August 12, 2002 from http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/poverty00/table5.html
45. Department U.S. of Labor. 1965. The Negro family:The case for national action, Washington, DC:GPO.
46. Vartanian, T. P., and McNamara, J. M., 2002. Older women in poverty:The impact of midlife factors. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 64(2):532–548.
47. Vroom, V. H., 1995. Work and motivation, San Francisco:Jossey-Bass (Original work published 1964).
48. Waldron, I., Hughes, M. E., and Brooks, T. L., 1996. Marriage protection and marriage selectionprospective evidence for reciprocal effects of marital status and health. Social Science and Medicine, 43(1):113–116.
49. Waldron, I., Weiss, C. C., and Hughes, M. E., 1997. Marital status effects on health:Are there differences between never married women and divorced and separated women. Social Sciences and Medicine, 45(9):1387–1397.
50. Wilmoth, J., and Koso, G., 2002. Does marital history matter. Marital status and wealth outcomes among preretirement adults. Journal of Marriage and Family, 64:254–268.
51. Wilson, W. J., 1987. The truly disadvantaged:The inner city, the underclass, and public policy, Chicago, IL:University of Chicago Press.