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Self-Sufficiency Domain
By Elizabeth Hair, Ph.D,  Thomson Ling, and Stephanie W. Cochran
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Self-Sufficiency (click for overall summary)

  Experimental Research Studies Non-Experimental Research Studies

In comparison to counterparts in control group:

- Poor, unmarried program participants are less likely to have a subsequent pregnancy at the 22-month follow-up (.17 pregnancies vs. .51 pregnancies).

- Poor, unmarried program participants have fewer pregnancies (.58 vs. 1.02 ) at the 46-month interview.

In comparison to control group:

- Program participants are not significantly more likely to be living with a partner, having a child, pregnant, or living with a child.

In comparison to counterparts in control group:

- Program participants who have dropped out of high school at program entry have higher rates of childbirth.

- Program participants in one site have fewer births (1.5 vs. 1.6) and pregnancies (1.7 vs. 1.9).

- Program participants have a significantly smaller time period between a previous pregnancy and the next pregnancy.

In comparison to counterparts in control group:

- Female African American participants are less likely to be unmarried and pregnant at follow-up (6 percent vs. 21 percent).

- Female participants in other subgroups and male participants in all subgroups show no differences in pregnancy rate.

- Female African American participants have higher birth rates.




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