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An Economic Framework and Selected Proposals for Demonstrations Aimed At Strengthening Marriage, Employment, and Family Functioning Outcomes

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Title Page

1. Introduction

2. Conceptual Frameworks

3. The Next Wave of Demonstrations

4. Concluding Comments

Appendix Title Page: Marriage, Employment, and Family Functioning: A Literature Review

Appendix Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Approaches to Examining the Literature

3. The Empirical Literature on Observational Data
   1. Broad Perspectives on Marital Status and Labor-Market Outcomes
   2. Empirical Findings on Marital Status and Labor-Market Outcomes
      1. How Marital Status Affects Men’s Employment and Earnings
      2. How Men’s Employment and Earnings Affect Marital Status

      3. How Marital Status Affects Women’s Employment and Earnings

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      4. Effects of Employment and Earnings on Marriage among Women
      5. An Assessment of the Evidence on Marriage-Employment Links
   3. Key Topics in Employment and Family Functioning
      1. Dimensions of Employment Often Connected with Family Functioning
      2. Interactions between Child Well-Being and Parental Employment
      3. Parents, Parenting and Family Functioning
   4. Empirical Results from the Literature on Employment and Family Functioning
      1. Interactions between Mother’s Employment and Child Outcomes
      2. Nonstandard Work Schedules, Long Work Hours, and Instability in Work Hours and Work Schedules: Effects on Marriage, Child Care, Parenting and Child Outcomes
      3. Job Loss and Unemployment
      4. Child Health and Maternal Employment
      5. Assessment of Links between Family Functioning and Employment
   5. The Relationship between Marriage and Family Functioning
      1. Marriage Influencing Behavior and Parent-Child Interactions
      2. The Influence of Marriage on Children’s Cognitive Outcomes
      3. Marriage and Adult Well-Being
      4. Conflict, Poor Mental and Physical Health, and Marital Dissolution
      5. Assessment of Links between Marital Status and Family Functioning
4. Evidence on the Relationships among Marriage, Employment, and Family Functioning from Experimental Research
   1. Employment Demonstrations and Program Evaluations
      1. Welfare-to-Work Demonstration Projects
      2. Other Models to Stimulate Employment and Earnings of Low-Income Families .
      3. Youth-Focused Job Training and Education Demonstration Projects
      4. Summary of Results from Selected Employment-Related Demonstrations for Welfare Recipients, Poor Adults, and Low-Income Youth
   2. Family-Functioning Demonstrations
      1. Parent-Focused Demonstrations
      2. Child-Centered Demonstration Projects
      3. Summary of Demonstrations Oriented toward Family Functioning
      4. Future Directions and Recent Developments

   3. A Housing Mobility Demonstration

   4. New Marriage Demonstrations

5. Some Implications for Understanding and Improving Interactions between Marriage, Employment, and Family Functioning

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