Marriage America’S Greatest Weapon Against The Child Poverty

Questions: Read the Heritage Foundation report Marriage: Americas Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty and then respond the following prompts.. A. Summarize the authors argument regarding the effect of marriage on child poverty B. Set up the authors argument formally using the potential outcomes framework. Be as thorough as possible, specifying the units, treatment conditions, and quantities of interest. C. Given your setup from the previous question, what assumptions are required to estimate the Average Treatment Effect on the Treated (ATT) given the authors data? D. Considering the assumptions from your previous answer, do you think the author provides good estimates of the causal effect of marriage on child poverty? If so, why? If not, be specific about what assumptions are violated and why. E. Briefly describe how you would design a study to improve upon the estimates in this report? Answers: A. Effect of marriage on child poverty The author says that child poverty is a national concern and a major issue as there is only few who can understand the principal concerns that relates to the absence of the fathers, married one in the family or in the home. According to the US census, it is said that the rate of poverty is counted for known single parents with their children estimated is 36.5 percent in the year 2008. The effects of marriage are that the poverty rate that is also present among according to author, the married couples is like to be lower than that of the poverty rate among the various known households that are very single in nature. According to author, marriage is associated with the lower rates of the poverty and is separate for the whites, Hispanics and blacks race people. When each of the racial and their ethnic group is compared, then the poverty gets affected by the marriage as there is poverty rate that is substantially lower for the married couples than for the non-married families. For exampl e, in the black married couples, the poverty rate could be regarded as the point of the 6.9 per cent. Thus, the children are controlled by single parents and they have a kind of the emotional to all sorts of problems. (Christensen Jen, 2008) B. Potential outcomes framework In the intact married homes, the potential outcomes are negative in the sense children drink, smoke and intake the use of drugs. They are engaged in violent activities such as: Delinquent There could have the criminal behavior and with this the criminal behavior, there may arise some other kind of the problems that occurs with it. There are also the chances to have the poor school performances. One is probable to leave the school Specifying the units: In many of the cases, it is found that when these are associated with the improvements in the child for the well-being of them, then there is made adjustment in family income. Treatment conditions: There are only around 8% of the non-marital births that is under 18. The researches on the lower income have been made to the women who become mother outside of marriage. Some are generally the accidental pregnancies and they are given treatment according to the programs Quantities of interest: The interest is that the married fathers on the child outcomes look to test the families with the kind of the same kind of the race and the education shows their interest to remain married. C. Average Treatment Effect on the Treated (ATT) The following are the assumptions like the out of the wedlock birth has the share that is equal to the number of the babies that are born to the non-married mothers that belongs to the particular group that may be ethnic or the racial and the group according to the estimation by the total number of the babies born that are born outside the marriage for the all racial groups and even the ethnic groups are too included. Thus, if there are in lump sum, total were 50 babies who were born outside the marriage to the Hispanic mothers in the given year and total will be made out of bed lock that is form the all racial is around 150, then out of bed- lock is shared for the Hispanics that would be too divided by the 150 or that is around 33.3 percent. It is also said that the assumption is out of wed lock and it is considered, the birth rates for the different substance and also the racial despite the black and Hispanic is likely to give birth in the overall population and the greatest number still occurs to its group. Of all the non martial births in the US, it is said that 26 percent were black. (Church, 2009) D. Good estimates of the causal effect of marriage on child poverty From the authors argument, it is clear that when compared to the single mother then the low income mother who is single believes that the marriage requires careful planning and preparation and childbearing to the mother is really sensitive. The author says that the idea should be carefully made in order to have the suitable partner because the marriage has some sort of effects that may or may not be dangerous of the whites and blacks, the marriage is the substance says author, that has to be evolved the successful relationship when the child is the foreign concept. The major obstacle is when the woman has decided to plan the having children and with this concept the life plan gets exactly the reverse of the normal process and in the middle upper class both the men and the women have to look to the traditional pattern. The man and the woman both is said to have been attracted to one other in the way that will build up the relationships developed. And the emotional bonds will be deepen ing. (Boxer, et.al, 2005) E. Design a study to improve upon the estimates in this report The study should include the following things like: Encouraging the public campaigns: Target group should be motivated to plan the public campaign strategy and for the importance of marriage. There should have proper communication of the marriage to the adults and children that resides in the society. It is observed that most of the low income girls have high desire to have the children, so these very young women need to be very receptive in the information and that will show the positive impact on the marriage. There is also need to increase the federal assistance education programs and these programs will also provide the information that relates to the value of the education and marriage. 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