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Should We Get Married? The Effect of Parents’ Marriage on Out-of-Wedlock Children

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Shirley H. Liu () (Department of Economics, University of Miami)
Frank Heiland () (Department of Economics and Center of Demography and Population Health, Florida State University)

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Using a representative sample of children all born to unwed parents drawn from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), we investigate whether marriage after childbirth has a causal effect on early child cognitive ability, using a treatment outcome approach to account for selfselection into marriage. Comparing children with similar background characteristics and parental mate-selection patterns who differ only in terms of whether their parents marry after childbirth, marriage between unwed biological parents leads to a four point increase in their child’s Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) score at age three relative to children whose parents remain unmarried.

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Paper provided by University of Miami, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 0611.

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Keywords: Marriage; Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing; Child Cognitive Development; Propensity Score Matching;

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J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
C3 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables

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  1. Shirley H. Liu & Frank Heiland, . "New Estimates on the Effect of Parental Separation on Child Health," Working Papers 0719, University of Miami, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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