Do Youth Nonmarital Childbearing Choices Reflect Expected Income and Relationship Consequences?

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2006Author
Wolfe, Barbara
Haveman, Robert
Pence, Karen
Schwabish, Jonathan
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The authors explore whether the perceptions unmarried,
adolescent females have about the consequences of choices they
make affect those choices and the teens' behavior. The analysis
considers expectations about marriage and cohabitation and about
income.