Neighborhood Poverty and Nonmarital Fertility: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions
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Neighborhood Poverty and Nonmarital Fertility: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions.
Data from 4,855 respondents to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics were used to examine spatial and temporal dimensions of the effect of neighborhood poverty on teenage premarital childbearing. Although high poverty in the immediate neighborhood increased the risk of becoming an unmarried parent, high poverty in surrounding neighborhoods reduced this risk. The effect of local neighborhood povert...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Marriage and Family
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0022-2445,1741-3737
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00685.x