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Author: Panis, Constantijn W. A.
Resulting in 5 citations.
1. Lillard, Lee A.
Upchurch, Dawn M.
Panis, Constantijn W. A.
Interdependencies over the Life Course Women's Fertility, Marital, and Educational Experiences
Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Divorce; Education; Endogeneity; Fertility; Life Course; Life Cycle Research; Marriage; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Modeling, Probit; Remarriage; Simultaneity; Women's Education

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The purpose of this paper is to examine women's life course transitions over three life domains (fertility, marriage, and education) by considering the following distinct behavioral "processes": marital and nonmarital fertility, getting married (or remarried), getting divorced, and completed education and enrollment status. We provide a more complete description of women's life course during the young adult years by analyzing the determinants of the patterns and timing of these events using flexible conceptual and statistical models which account for their inherent dynamic nature and their jointness. We model a series of simultaneous hazard (and probit) equations in which the endogeneity of outcomes of related processes is incorporated to test a number of substantive hypotheses. The data are from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.
Bibliography Citation
Lillard, Lee A., Dawn M. Upchurch and Constantijn W. A. Panis. "Interdependencies over the Life Course Women's Fertility, Marital, and Educational Experiences." Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994.
2. Panis, Constantijn W. A.
Lillard, Lee A.
Upchurch, Dawn M.
Implications of Family Formation for Educational Attainment Among Young Women
Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Childbearing; Education Indicators; Educational Attainment; Event History; Fertility; Marriage; Methods/Methodology; Modeling; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; School Completion; Schooling; Women's Education

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This paper analyzes educational choices made by young women in the United States. The focus is on the consequences of family formation outcomes (fertility and marriage) for schooling decisions. In order to address the issue of selectivity among women who bear children and/or get married while in school, we develop a model in which schooling, fertility, and marriage decisions are considered jointly. The empirical model of schooling explicitly recognizes that decisions to proceed in school are taken sequentially, over time. We use the precise timing of events in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to determine the effects on schooling continuation decisions. The relative timing of pregnancies, marriage dates, and graduation dates are used to gain insight into the directions of causality and the magnitude of the effects.
Bibliography Citation
Panis, Constantijn W. A., Lee A. Lillard and Dawn M. Upchurch. "Implications of Family Formation for Educational Attainment Among Young Women." Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995.
3. Upchurch, Dawn M.
Lillard, Lee A.
Panis, Constantijn W. A.
Nonmarital Childbearing: Influences of Education, Marriage, and Fertility
Demography 39, 2 (May 2002): 311-329.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/w173r5810x4g1j8g/
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Childbearing; Divorce; Education; Educational Attainment; Endogeneity; Family Formation; Fertility; Life Course; Marital Dissolution; Marital Status; Marriage; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Racial Differences

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

We examined the determinants of nonmarital fertility, focusing on the effects of other life-course events: education, marriage, marital dissolution, and marital fertility. Since these determinants are potentially endogenous, we modeled the processes that generate them jointly with nonmarital fertility and accounted for the sequencing of events and the unobserved correlations across processes. The results showed that the risk of nonmarital conception increases immediately after leaving school and that the educational effects are less pronounced for black women than for other women. The risk is lower for previously married women than for never-married women, even controlling for age, but this reduction is only significant for black women. The more children a woman already has, the lower her risk of nonmarital childbearing, particularly if the other children were born during a previous marriage. Ignoring endogeneity issues seriously biases the estimates of several substantively important effects.
Bibliography Citation
Upchurch, Dawn M., Lee A. Lillard and Constantijn W. A. Panis. "Nonmarital Childbearing: Influences of Education, Marriage, and Fertility." Demography 39, 2 (May 2002): 311-329.
4. Upchurch, Dawn M.
Lillard, Lee A.
Panis, Constantijn W. A.
Updating Women's Life Course: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Life Course; Life Cycle Research; Modeling; Simultaneity; Women

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The purpose of this paper is to further develop theoretical aspects of women's life course by broadening our empirical understanding of key life course concepts and discussing the implications. First, we explore how our contributions expand upon the dynamic nature of the life course perspective. Second, we advance our understanding of the ways in which transitions (short run) are embedded within specific trajectories by modeling several trajectories in a simultaneous fashion. Finally, we present some empirical findings using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and conclude by recommending future directions for life course research.
Bibliography Citation
Upchurch, Dawn M., Lee A. Lillard and Constantijn W. A. Panis. "Updating Women's Life Course: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations." Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995.
5. Upchurch, Dawn M.
Panis, Constantijn W. A.
Nonmarital Childbearing: Influences of Schooling, Marriage, and Prior Fertility
Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Childbearing; Education Indicators; Educational Returns; Endogeneity; Fertility; Life Course; Marital Dissolution; Marital Status; Modeling, Probit; Schooling; Simultaneity

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

In this paper we examine the determinants of nonmarital fertility focusing on the direct effects of other life course events (educational progression, getting married, marital fertility, and marital dissolution). We model the processes jointly to explicitly accounting for their potential endogeneity using simultaneous hazard (and probit) techniques (Lillard 1993), separating the joint determination (selectivity) from direct effects. The study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). We test a series of substantive hypotheses regarding the nature of these relationships. Our empirical findings demonstrate that failure to account for the endogeneity of these life course processes leads to biased estimates, and in some cases, misleading substantive conclusions.
Bibliography Citation
Upchurch, Dawn M. and Constantijn W. A. Panis. "Nonmarital Childbearing: Influences of Schooling, Marriage, and Prior Fertility." Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998.