Marriage

Archived Publications

May 2004 Marriage: What Social Science Says and Doesn’t Say
May 2004 Social Scientific Data on the Impact of Marriage and Divorce on Children: M Waller
May 2004 Social Scientific Data on the Impact of Marriage and Divorce on Children: P Fagan
Apr 2004 Marriage on the Public Policy Agenda: What Do Policy Makers Need to Know from Research?
Mar 2004 Understanding the President's Healthy Marriage Initiative
Jan 2004 Who Are “Fragile Families” and What Do We Know About Them?
Dec 2003 Healthy Marriage Compendium
Aug 2003 "Other than the Drug Problem, He Is a Good Father": Barriers to Healthy Marriage and Parenting Among Poor, Urban Black Men
Aug 2003 The Effect of Maternal Employment on Teenage Childbearing
Aug 2003 Explaining the Trend in Teenage Birth Rates from 1981-1999
Aug 2003 "Marriage Plus": Sabotaging the President's Efforts to Promote Healthy Marriage
May 2003 Increasing Marriage Would Dramatically Reduce Child Poverty
Apr 2003 The Effect of Family Structure on Intergenerational Earnings Mobility
Apr 2003 Staying Single: The Effects of Welfare Reform Polcies on Marriage and Children
Nov 2002 What Do They Think? Welfare Recipients’ Attitudes Toward Marriage and Childbearing
Oct 2002 More Than a Dating Service? State Activities Designed to Strengthen and Promote Marriage
Sep 2002 The Impacts of Marital Status and Parental Presence on the Material Hardship of Parents with Children
Sep 2002 Developing Marriage Initiatives for Your State
Sep 2002 How Do Marriage, Cohabitation, and Single Parenthood Affect the Material Hardships of Parents with Children?
Sep 2002 Married and Unmarried Parenthood and Economic Well-Being: A Dynamic Analysis of a Recent Cohort
Aug 2002 Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the United States
Aug 2002 The Effects of Marriage and Maternal Education in Reducing Child Poverty
Aug 2002 Marriage and Government: Strange Bedfellows?
Aug 2002 Working Together to Strengthen Families Conference (ACF Pacific Hub)
Jul 2002 Uniting Incarcerated Parents and Their Families
Jul 2002 Marriage and the Economic Well-Being of Families with Children
Jul 2002 A New Look at Unmarried Families: Diversity in Human Capital, Attitudes, and Relationship Quality based on Living Arrangement and Marriage Expectations
Jul 2002 Poverty Research News: Family Formation Issue
Jun 2002 The Evaluation of Welfare Reform in Iowa
Jun 2002 Marriage from a Child’s Perspective: How Does Family Structure Affect Children, and What Can We Do about It?
Feb 2002 Strengthening Couples and Marriage in Low-Income Communities
Dec 2001 Fragile Families, Welfare Reform, and Marriage
  Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs: Interim Report
  Identity, Work, and Parenting: Implications for Welfare Reform
  Serving Noncustodial Parents: A Descriptive Study of Welfare-to-Work Programs
  Welfare Reform and Parenting: Reasonable Expectations
  Welfare Reform, Fertility, and Father Involvement
  Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Father Involvement
  Data Needs for Measuring Family and Fertility Change After Welfare Reform
  For Richer or For Poorer: Marriage as an Antipoverty Strategy
  Is Lack of Marriage the Real Problem?
  Is Teen Marriage a Solution?
  Let Them Eat Wedding Rings: A Report on Marriage Promotion and Welfare Reform
  Marriage and Children's Well-Being: What the Research Tells Us
  Marriage and Economic Stability (Three papers)
  Marriage and Family (Issue of Poverty Research News) (May)
  Marriage As Public Policy
  Marriage, Poverty, and Public Policy
  Marriage-Plus
  Preventing Subsequent Births to Welfare Mothers
  Strengthening Families: An Agenda for TANF Reauthorization