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This finding looks at the relationship between year-round employment and out-of-wedlock fatherhood and fathers’ ages at the time of their children’s birth.

Early premarital fatherhood had greater consequences than premarital fatherhood at older ages in terms of employment. Men who fathered children out of wedlock in their teens early twenties were about 38 percent less likely to work year-round than men who did not father children outside of marriage. Those who became unmarried fathers at older ages—in their late twenties and early thirties—were about 23 percent less likely to work year-round than men who did not father children outside of marriage.

Sample or Data Description
Data come from the 1993-wave of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), in which the male respondents ranged in age from 28 to 35.

Source
"The Consequences of Premarital Fatherhood"
Nock, Steven L.
American Sociological Review Vol. 63, Number . April, 1998. Page(s) 250-263.

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