Welfare, Marital Prospects, and Nonmarital Childbearing
评估了AFDC福利水平和婚姻前景对年轻女性生育和婚姻选择的影响，发现高福利和低婚姻前景会促使她们选择非婚生育。
The roles of the entitlements of the AFDC program and marital prospects in the fertility and marriage choices of young women are assessed in the context of a model incorporating heritable endowment heterogeneity, assortative mating, concern for child quality, and potential parental and public support alternatives. Estimates based on data describing the fertility and marital experience up to age 23 of the eight birth cohorts of women in the NLSY provide evidence that higher AFDC benefit levels and lower marital prospects induce young women to choose to have a child outside of marriage.