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Index

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2018

Edited by
Naomi R. Cahn ,
June Carbone ,
Laurie Fields DeRose  and
W. Bradford Wilcox
Naomi R. Cahn
Affiliation:
George Washington University School of Law
June Carbone
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota School of Law
Laurie Fields DeRose
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
W. Bradford Wilcox
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
Type
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Unequal Family Lives
Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas
 , pp. 324 - 328
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018
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Index

affirmative action, 260
apprenticeships, 228
abortion, 48, 203, 279
achievement tests, 145, 221
AEI-Brookings working group, 228, 229
Affordable Care Act (ACA), 225
Akerlof, George, 183
assortative mating, xvi, 2, 24, 223, 270
Australia. See Chapters 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 9
Austria. See Chapters 1, 4 & 6
Autor, David, 193
Avoid the Stork, 227
Baltics, 87
Becker, Gary, 240
Belarus, 88
Belgium. See Chapters 6, 9 & 11
birth control. See contraception
boarding schools, 233, 257
Brazil. See Chapters 2 & 11
Building Strong Families, 229
Bulgaria, 29, 87, 306
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 106, 109, 110, 320, 321
Canada. See Chapters 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 11
Career Academies, 228, 304
Catholic Church, 58, 87, 93
children of divorce, 219
community colleges, 227
cohabitation
focus group, 8, 86, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96
heterogeneity of, 8, 97, 101, 145, 146
legal recognition of, 89
life satisfaction, 8, 98, 98
Colombia. See Chapters 2 & 11
compensatory hypothesis, 146
contraception
anti-contraception laws, 241
effective contraception, 14, 224, 225, 227
IUDs, 224
LARCs, 224, 226, 234
religious opposition, 279
criminal activity
married men, 180, 187, 188, 221
two-parent families, 188, 189, 194
cultural diffusion, 11
Current Population Survey (CPS), 106, 109, 128, 297, 320, 321
Czech Republic, 23, 169, 171, 243, 244, 252, 316
DC Briya/Mary’s Center, 232
Daddy Days, 207
deindustrialization, 23
deinstitutionalization of marriage, 69, 263, 266
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), 182, 190
Denmark. See Chapters 1, 4, 6, 7, 9 & 11
developmental paradigm, 213
diverging destinies, 2, 4, 5, 10, 13, 21, 33, 41, 103, 144, 161, 165, 166, 175, 208, 254
domestic violence, 249, 250, 251, 272, 280
domestic work, 7, 12, 76, 211, 246, 267
drug addiction, 253
dual nuptiality system, 5
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), 230
earnings gap, 71, 72
economic inequality and family structure, 1, 15, 261
educational homogamy, 206
effects of family structure, 156
according to socioeconomic background, 171–173
test scores, 33, 145, 146, 148, 150, 156, 162, 166, 172, 173, 177, 180, 181
egalitarianism, 13, 170, 211, 215, 234, 251, 267, 312
England, Paula, 224, 289, 294, 296
Europe. See Chapters 1, 4, 5 & passim
family policy, 14, 18, 88, 200, 204, 206, 210, 217, 225
landscape of nonmarital fertility, 86–89
patterns of family change, 83–89
euthanasia, 48
extended households, 43, 47, 48, 53, 59, 61
Family and Medical Leave Act, 204
family gap, 216, 223, 230, 232, 233, 234
family policy
baby bonuses, 203
family allowances, 203
Nordic model, 243, 244, 245, 255
paid maternity leave, 203, 204
subsidized child care, 202, 204, 208
family structure effects, 145, 146, 149, 164, 177, 178
family structure inequality, 261, 263, 264
father absence, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257
female-headed households, 45, 49, 174
feminization of poverty, 50
Finland. See Chapter 6 & 9
floor effect hypothesis, 146
focus group project, 92–96
France. See Chapters 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 9
gender essentialism, 212, 213, 260
gender revolution, 12, 13, 41, 199, 200, 202, 204, 206, 209, 210, 211, 212, 214, 215, 245, 258, 259
General Social Survey, 76, 77
Germany. See Chapters 1, 4, 6, 7, 9 & 11
globalization, 16, 23, 79, 136
grade repetition, xiii, xiv, 9, 145, 151, 154, 155, 156, 157, 159, 162, 163
Great Depression, 7, 71, 76, 80, 111, 117, 203
Greece. See Chapters 1, 4, 5, 6 & 11
Gruber, Jonathan, 189
Hakim, Catherine, 212
Harlem Children’s Zone, 232
hegemonic masculinity, 79
Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), 232
home visiting programs, 232
homogamous marriages, 24
homosexuality, 48
household complexity, 3, 43, 47, 50, 59
housing policy, 233
Hungary, 35, 171, 252, 253, 312
Iceland, 29, 87, 171, 207, 268
intact married families, 149
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International (IPUMS-I), 190
intergenerational mobility, 13, 33, 216, 218, 219, 234
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), 152
intersectionality, 239
Ireland. See Chapters 1, 6, 7 & 11
Italy. See Chapters 1, 4, 5 & passim
Japan, 112, 179
Lamont, Michèle, 73
Latin America. See Chapters 2 & 11
double disadvantage, 261
family systems, xvii, 42
family trends, 45–55
Maps, ix, 44
paradoxes of Latin American family change, 56–58
union and childbearing calendars, 3, 43
Lesthaeghe, Ron, 212
Lithuania, 27, 29, 35, 87, 304
Lucas, Robert, Jr., 180
Luxembourg. See Chapters 1 & 6
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database, 144, 308
male breadwinner model, 41, 91, 240, 241, 243, 248
marriage
among highly educated women, 52, 212
educational gradient in, 34, 35, 37
retreat from, 6, 7, 15, 16, 34, 82, 111, 146, 184, 199, 218, 261, 262, 263
marriage and economic growth, 180–187
marriage bar, 201
marriage premium, 172, 184, 249
marriage promotion, 229, 282
marriageable men, 23, 274
Medicaid, 225, 302, 315
Mediterranean countries, 153, 255
men and work
education effect, 136
in the United States, 183
marriage effect, 134, 136
married prime-age men, 122, 125, 126, 130, 134, 136
never-married prime-age men, 122
Mexico. See Chapter 2
motherhood penalty, 186
Moving to Opportunity (MTO), 233
MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, 227
multipartnered fertility, 3, 4, 30, 31, 36, 38
Murray, Charles, 223, 229
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), 229
Netherlands. See Chapters 1, 4, 6, 7 & 11
New Zealand. See Chapters 5 & 6
nonmarital childbearing
births to lone mothers, 5
class divide in nonmarital childbearing, 8
in cohabiting unions, 5, 52, 70
North America, 2, 181, 185, 241, 268
Norway. See Chapters 1, 4, 6, 9 & 11
OECD countries, ix, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 150, 242
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 112, 182
PACS, 90, 92
paternity, 91, 274, 276
pathology of matriarchy, 237, 238, 254, 258
pathology of patriarchy, 15, 238, 258
Pence, Mike, 225
Poland, 23, 29, 35, 88, 93, 94, 278, 306, 311
Portugal, 88, 151, 153, 155, 156, 158, 159, 160, 162, 242, 243
preference theory, 212
premarital sex, 224, 234
Prevention First, 227
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) of 2012, 145
Putnam, Robert, 223, 225
red states, 281
Redesigning America’s Community Colleges, 228
relationship stability, 15, 209, 265, 274
Rubio, Marco Senator, 228
Russia, 37, 93, 95, 169, 251, 303, 306
Sawhill, Isabel, 13, 301, 310, 315
Generation Unbound, 223
Scandinavia, 12, 207, 210
second demographic transition, 3, 17, 21, 25, 33, 36, 38, 41, 48, 80, 81, 83, 165, 199, 263, 266
SEED schools, 233, 293
Serbia, 88, 171
single motherhood
and mother’s education, xiii, xiv, 154, 155, 158, 159, 160, 161
mother’s tertiary education, 156, 162
negative effects of, 144, 145, 147, 148, 150, 156, 163, 255
single-mother households, 253, 255, 256
percentage of children residing in. See Table 11.3
Slovenia, 29
Social Trends Institute, xix, 2, 21, 181, 237, 293
Spain. See Chapters 1, 4, 6 & passim
stability gap, 217
stepparent, xvii, 151, 167, 168
Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), 121
Sweden. See Chapters 1, 4, 6, 7, 9 & 11
Switzerland. See Chapters 1, 4 & 6
teen pregnancy rates, 227
The Century Foundation, 227, 290
The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, 237
Thornton, Arland, 212, 323
Title X, 227
truancy, xiii, xiv, 9, 17, 145, 151, 154, 155, 156, 157, 160, 161, 162, 163, 253
unintended pregnancy, 13, 217, 224, 225, 279
union instability, 4, 14, 17, 37, 38, 41, 59, 81, 182, 247
United Kingdom. See Chapters 1, 4, 6, 7, 9 & passim
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 188
United Nations Statistics Division as well as the World Values Survey (WVS), 190
United States. See Chapters 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, & passim
changes in family patterns, 5, 23, 25, 136, 139
class divide in marriage, 8
decline of work for American men, 106–112
work rates and family structure, 125–139
universal preschool, 12
upper middle class, 223
UpStream, 226
Vance, J.D., 222
vocational apprenticeships, 14
West, Darrell, 227
Western Ukraine, 88
work-based learning, 228
work–family conflict, 12, 199, 200, 207, 208, 211, 212, 215
working class, 269
World Bank, 40, 182, 185, 186, 191, 240, 286, 323

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