Page Marianne E, Stevens Ann Huff
Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Demography. 2005 Feb;42(1):75-90. doi: 10.1353/dem.2005.0007.
This article examines whether the economic consequences of growing up in a single-parent family differ for black children and white children. It is important to understand whether the costs differ across racial groups because although much of the rhetoric about poor single-parent families focuses on inner-city blacks, most children who live in such families are white. If the costs of living with only one parent vary across groups, then policies that are aimed at reducing the costs that do not acknowledge this variation will not target resources efficiently. We found that the economic costs of living with a single parent are larger for black children than for white children. Most of the discrepancy can be attributed to differences in remarriage rates, marital stability, welfare participation, and female labor supply.
本文探讨了在单亲家庭中成长对黑人儿童和白人儿童的经济影响是否存在差异。了解不同种族群体的成本差异非常重要，因为尽管许多关于贫困单亲家庭的言论都集中在城市中心的黑人身上，但生活在这类家庭中的大多数儿童是白人。如果与单亲生活的成本在不同群体中存在差异，那么旨在降低成本但未认识到这种差异的政策将无法有效地分配资源。我们发现，与单亲生活的经济成本对黑人儿童而言比对白人儿童更大。这种差异大部分可归因于再婚率、婚姻稳定性、福利参与度和女性劳动力供应方面的差异。
