High hopes but even higher expectations: The retreat from marriage among low-income couples.

By Christina M. Gibson‐Davis, K. Edin, Sara McLanahan. 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Mixed Methods Approaches in Family Science Research (2008, background): “Gibson-Davis, Edin, and McLanahan (2005) expressed how two data sources, surveys and interviews, were utilized to provide perspective on the declining rate of marriage among low-income couples.”
A Reconsideration of the Fatherhood Premium (2013, background): “Low-income fathers (and mothers) report wanting to delay marriage until they have achieved sufficient financial resources (Gibson-Davis, Edin, and McLanahan 2005), suggesting that married fatherhood may be especially likely to follow wage increases.”
Theories of the Causes of Poverty (2018, background): “Reflecting behavioral theory, many use individual-level data sets to study low-income mothers and fathers and investigate why they conceive children out of wedlock and do not get married (Burton et al. 2009, Gibson-Davis et al. 2005, Lichter et al. 2003, McLanahan 2009).”
Diverging destinies: How children are faring under the second demographic transition (2004, background): “You know . . . . stuff like you see on TV. (Gibson, Edin, and McLanahan 2004) 16.”
Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives. (2011, background): “This is related to the rise of unstable forms of unions such as unmarried cohabitation (Heuveline and Timberlake, 2004), the ‘retreat from marriage’ (Gibson-Davis et al ., 2005) and increases in the level of divorce (Amato, 2000).”
Father Involvement in Immigrant and Ethnically Diverse Families from the Prenatal Period to the Second Year: Prediction and Mediating Mechanisms (2009, background): “infants, such as bathing and feeding (e.g., Carlson and McLanahan 2002; Gibson-Davis et al. 2005; Hofferth et al. 2007; Boller et al. 2006).”
Rethinking the Risks of Poverty: A Framework for Analyzing Prevalences and Penalties1 (2017, background): “One principal question of this and related research is to understand why low-income parents conceive children and do not get married (Carlson et al. 2004; Edin and Kefalas 2011; Gibson-Davis et al. 2005; Lichter et al. 2003; Lichter et al. 2006).”
Handbook of Consumer Finance Research (2008, background): “For example, Gibson-Davis et al. ( 2005 ) interviewed a couple who had been married by a justice of the peace, but then hid that fact from their family and friends because they did not yet have a very high standard of living.”