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An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States

Akerlof, G. A., Yellen, J. L., Katz, M. L.·1996·The Quarterly Journal of Economics
DOI 10.2307/2946680
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This paper relates the erosion of the custom of shotgun marriage to the legalization of abortion and the increased availability of contraception to unmarried women in the United States. The decline in shotgun marriage accounts for a significant fraction of the increase in out-of-wedlock first births. Several models illustrate the analogy between women who do not adopt either birth control or abortion and the hand-loom weavers, both victims of changing technology. Mechanisms causing female immiseration are modeled and historically described. This technology-shock hypothesis is an alternative to welfare and job-shortage theories of the feminization of poverty.

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Authors
Akerlof, G. A., Yellen, J. L., & Katz, M. L.
Venue
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
1996-05-01
Volume
111
Issue
2
Pages
277-317
ISSN
  • 0033-5533 (ISSN-L)
  • 1531-4650
DOI
10.2307/2946680
OpenAlex
W2169712827
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490
References
19
FWCI
32.19
Type
journal article
Language
en
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