Finding

 


This finding looks at the relationship between having children and the likelihood of being affluent.

Although having children reduced likelihood of attaining affluence for married individuals, married individuals with children were still more likely to become affluent than individuals who were not married and did not have children both among the younger cohort, ages 25 to 45, and the older cohort, ages 45 to 65.


Sample or Data Description
25 years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) on 8,510 25-year-olds and 3,481 45-year-olds


Source
"Does Marriage Increase the Odds of Affluence? Exploring the Life Course Probabilities"
Hirschl, Thomas A.
Altobelli, Joyce, Rank, Mark R.
Journal of Marriage and Family Vol. 65, Number 4. November, 2003. Page(s) 927-938.


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