Full Database

Keep Exploring
Sending

Item #246

40% of all births are to unmarried women (growth trend consistent across all demographic groups); half of which women ages 20-29

 Topic: Parenthood

Source

Citation: Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 33
Author(s): Autor, Wasserman
Institution(s): MIT

Link: http://economics.mit.edu/files/8755


Nation(s): United States
Year(s): 2010
Source: Primary
Type: Statistical Analysis

Discussion

Other Notes:

This while teenage pregnancy has declined by 40% over the past 20 years; p. 34 - increase not due higher divorce or widowing rates