INCREASING THE ECONOMIC WELL-BEING OF SEPARATED, DIVORCED, AND WIDOWED WOMEN OVER AGE THIRTY |
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| Authors: | Stephen J Bahrand Shirley S Ricks |
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| Institution: | Director of the Family and Demographic Research Institute and Professor of Sociology at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. He received his Ph.D. degree from Washington State University and previously taught at the University of Texas at Austin. He also spent a year at the University of Nort, Carolina at Chapel Hill studying family policy at the Bush Institute for Child and Family Policy. His current research in- cludes studies of adolescent drug use, divorce mediation, and family policy.;currently part-time faculty member in the Family Sciences Department, Brigham Young University, teaching Preparation for Marriage and Personal and Family Management. She has a Ph.D. in Family Studies from Brigham Young University. Her current research is in gifted young children and reading to children. |
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| Abstract: | Data from the Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey and the Current Population Survey were used to estimate the effects of CETA, a governmental jobs program, on the economic well-being of separated, divorced, and widowed women over age thirty. After training, CETA participants had increases in earnings and tended to have higher earnings than comparable CPS respondents. Participants in on-the-job training and public service employment had greater increases than participants in the other CETA programs. CETA enrollees with a high school degree had greater increases in earnings than those who had not completed high school, while whites had greater increases in earnings than non-whites. |
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