The Effect of Economic Opportunity and Family Background on Adolescent Cohabitation on Adolescent Cohabitation and Childbearing among Low-Income Blacks
使用风险模型估计当地就业机会和家庭背景对低收入黑人青少年同居和生育的影响，发现就业机会通过机会成本渠道降低非婚生育率。
This article uses a hazards model permitting continuous covariates and fixed effects to estimate the effect of local employment opportunity and family background on the cohabitation and childbearing of black youths from low-income households. Support is found for W. J. Wilson's hypothesis that employment opportunity discourages childbearing outside such unions. However, the latter effect appears to be larger, suggesting that the opportunity-cost hypothesis is the primary channel through which higher employment rates result in lower rates of illegitimacy among underclass youths. Copyright 1990 by University of Chicago Press.