Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Nandi, Alita
Title: Women’s economic gains from employment, marriage and cohabitation
Abstract: U.S. public policy promotes both marriage and labor market participation as strategies for
improving the economic welfare of low-income women and their children. Here I compare women’s economic gains from marriage, cohabitation and employment. Using data from the NLSY79, I estimate a fixed-effects model of household income (adjusted for household composition). I find that among “poor” women (those who ever received welfare), the log household income of single, nonemployed women
would increase by 0.80 if they enter a cohabiting union, 1.04 if they marry, 0.76 if they work part-time (1000 hours/year), and 1.16 if they work full-time (2000 hours/year).

Creation-Date: 20080710
Number: 2008-23
Publication-Status: published
File-URL: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/working-papers/iser/2008-23.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:ese:iserwp:2008-23