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The Price of Virtue

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  • Brinig, Margaret F
  • Buckley, F H

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This article offers new evidence on the determinants of U.S. unwed birth rates from 1981 to 1990. The authors show that illegitimacy rates are positively and significantly correlated with payments under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program over a period in which real AFDC payments declined. They attribute this result to a decline in the social sanctions for illegitimacy. Because social sanctions declined, so did the cost of deviance, as well as the price for which unwed women sold their virtue. Copyright 1999 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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  • Brinig, Margaret F & Buckley, F H, 1999. "The Price of Virtue," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 98(1-2), pages 111-129, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:98:y:1999:i:1-2:p:111-29
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    1. Jagannathan, Radha & Camasso, Michael J., 2011. "Message and price components of Family Caps: Experimental evidence from New Jersey," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 34(3), pages 292-302, August.
    2. Jakee, Keith & Sun, Guang-Zhen, 2005. "External habit formation and dependency in the welfare state," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 21(1), pages 83-98, March.
    3. Radha Jagannathan & Michael J. Camasso & Mark Killingsworth, 2004. "New Jersey's Family Cap Experiment: Do Fertility Impacts Differ by Racial Density?," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 22(2), pages 431-460, April.

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