Conference on Nonmarital Fertility

University of Wisconsin-Madison

April 29-30, 1999

An invited conference sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty with support from the Office of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Thursday, April 29

Demographic Trends

"The Faces of Nonmarital Childbearing at the National and State Level"
Kelleen Kaye, DHHS/ASPE

"European Perspectives on Nonmarital Fertility"
Kathleen Kiernan, London School of Economics

"Cohabitation and Childbearing Outside Marriage in Britain"
John Ermisch, University of Essex

Discussant: Jan Hoem, Stockholm University

Life-Course Aspects of Nonmarital Childbearing

"Finding a Mate? The Post-Birth Marital and Cohabitation Histories of Unwed Mothers"
Daniel Lichter and Deborah Graefe, Pennsylvania State University

"Trajectories of Nonmarital Childbearing for Recent Cohorts of U.S. Women"
Lawrence Wu, Larry Bumpass, and Kelly Musick, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discussant: Michael Rendall, Pennsylvania State University

Child Support and Nonmarital Fertility

"Legal Fatherhood for Children Born Out of Wedlock"
Judith A. Seltzer, University of California, Los Angeles

"The Importance of Child Support for Mothers with Nonmarital Births"
Judi Bartfeld and Daniel R. Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discussant: Robert Plotnick, University of Washington

Economic Models of Nonmarital Childbearing

"The Economics of Out-of-Wedlock Births"
Derek Neal, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Estimating Welfare Effects Consistent with Forward-Looking Behavior"
Kenneth Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania, and Michael P. Keane, New York University

Discussant: Robert Willis, University of Michigan

Using Data from the Fragile Families Study to Learn about Nonresident Fathers

Speaker: Irwin Garfinkel, Columbia University

Friday, April 30

Welfare Policies and Nonmarital Childbearing

"Welfare and Nonmarital Childbearing: New Research and Policy Directions"
Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University

"The Effects of Welfare and Family Background on Non-Marital Childbearing"
Saul D. Hoffman, University of Delaware, and E. Michael Foster, Georgia State University

Discussant: George Clarke, The World Bank

Consequences of Nonmarital Childbearing

"Great Expectations: Consequences of Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing on Perceptions of Adult Attainments"
Kathleen Mullan Harris, Chapel Hill, Greg Duncan, Northwestern University, and Johanne Boisjoly, University of Quebec at Rimouski

"The Effect of Non-Marital Childbearing on Young Adult Outcomes"
Robert Haveman, Barbara Wolfe, and Karen Pence, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"The Consequences of Teen Births for Mothers and Children: Does Marital Status Matter?"
Gary Sandefur and Molly Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discussant: Lee Lillard, University of Michigan

"Unintended Nonmarital Childbearing"
Sanders Korenman, Robert Kaestner, and Theodore Joyce, Baruch College

"The Impact of Nonmarital Childbearing on Subsequent Marital Formation and Dissolution"
Dawn Upchurch, UCLA, Lee Lillard, University of Michigan, and Constantijn Panis, RAND

Discussant: James Walker, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Conference Rapporteurs and Final Discussion

Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University; Shelly Lundberg, University of Washington