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MATE AVAILABILITY AND UNMARRIED PARENT RELATIONSHIPS*
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Demography
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August 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Population Association of America Aug 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Theoretically, a shortage of males in a local marriage market may influence the formation, quality, and trajectory of unmarried parent relationships. To test these hypotheses, I combine city-level sex ratio data from the U.S. census with microdata on unmarried couples who recently had a child from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study. A shortage of men in a marriage market is associated with lower relationship quality for unmarried parents. Male shortages are associated with lower rates of marriage following a nonmarital birth, in part because of the mediating influence of relationship quality. A shortage of men is not significantly related to the economic quality of male, ...
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