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Autor/inn/en | DeLeire, Thomas; Kalil, Ariel |
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Institution | Joint Center for Poverty Research, IL. |
Titel | How Do Cohabiting Couples with Children Spend Their Money? JCPR Working Paper. |
Quelle | (2002), (68 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
Schlagwörter | Quantitative Daten; Alcohol Abuse; Child Welfare; Children; Cohabitation; Family Income; Marital Status; One Parent Family; Parent Responsibility; Parents; Tobacco |
Abstract | Cohabitation is an increasingly prevalent living arrangement in the United States. Although the effects of living in a cohabiting arrangement on child wellbeing are not fully understood, the literature on children growing up in cohabiting families suggests that they have poorer developmental outcomes than do those growing up in married-parent families or in single-parent families. This paper uses data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey to see if cohabiting couples with children spend their income on a different set of goods (i.e., have a different distribution of expenditure) than either married parents or single parents. Using a variety of analytical tools, the results find that cohabiting couples spend a substantially larger share of their total expenditure on alcohol and tobacco than do either married-parent families or single parents. Cohabiting couples with children also spend less on health care and less on education than do married parents. (Contains 39 references.) (Author/SM) |
Anmerkungen | For full text: http://www.jcpr.org. |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |