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December 1999

Marriage, children, and women’s employment: what do we know?

Philip N. Cohen, Suzanne Bianchi

Estimates of the level of women's full-time employment are greatly affected by the choice of reference period and universe; as States attempt to move poor mothers from welfare to work, a tendency may arise to overestimate how much mothers of young children actually work for pay

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Marriage, children, and women’s employment: what do we know?

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