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The Impact of the Changing US Family Structure on Child Poverty and Income Inequality

This paper analyses links between rising income inequality, child poverty and one-parent families in the United States from 1971 to 1989. One test reallocated weights so that 1989 proportions of children by mother's marital status resembled the 1971 distribution. A second method used: (1) simul...

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Published in:	Economica (London) 1996-01, Vol.63 (250), p.S119-S139
Main Author:	Lerman, Robert I.
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Subjects:	Black people Child welfare Children Children & youth Correlation analysis Divorce Economic aspects Economic conditions Economic theory Economic trends Families & family life Family Family structure Income distribution Income inequality Marriage Married status Mothers Poverty Poverty rates Single parent family Single parents Spouses Studies United States
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