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1.	Stolzenberg, Ross M. Waite, Linda J.
1.	Age, Fertility Expectations and Plans for Employment American Sociological Review 42,5 (October 1977): 769-783. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2094865 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Children; Control; Employment; Fertility; Labor Force Participation; Learning Hypothesis; Life Cycle Research; Marital Status; Work Knowledge Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Fertility, female labor force participation, and the relationship between them are key subjects in a number of theoretical and applied areas of sociology. Because sex role norms and the widespread use of birth control devices have given American women much control over their fertility and substantial choice in their labor force activity (or inactivity), understanding the development and interrelationship of labor force participation plans and fertility expectations assumes great importance in understanding actual labor force participation and actual fertility. As a step toward understanding this development, the authors describe and attempt to explain the effect of women's age on the relationship between their labor force participation plans and their fertility expectations. Using data from a national sample of young women aged l9 to 29 in l973 (N=3,589), a strong, linear relationship (r=-.96) was found between women's age and the effect of their plans for labor force participation on the number of children that they expect to bear in their lifetime. An explanation of this finding (called the Learning Hypothesis) is advanced which survives tests against several plausible alternative hypotheses. Policy implications and productive paths for future research are discussed.
	Bibliography Citation Stolzenberg, Ross M. and Linda J. Waite. "Age, Fertility Expectations and Plans for Employment." American Sociological Review 42,5 (October 1977): 769-783.

2.	Suter, Larry E. Waite, Linda J. Stolzenberg, Ross M.
2.	Birth Expectations and Working Plans of Young Women: Changes in Role Choices Final Report, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1976 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Children; Employment; Fertility The report explores plans of young women for labor force participation, their expectations for childbearing and the relationship between these intentions. Data from the l968 to l973 waves of the NLS of Young Women form the basis for the research. In the first chapter, the short-run stability of young women's reports on the number of children they expect to have in their lifetimes is examined. In the second and third chapters the relationship between young women's childbearing plans and intentions to work at age 35 is explored using nonrecursive models which allow reciprocal causation between work plans and fertility expectations. Planned family size was found to have only a small effect on young women's expectations for employment.
	Bibliography Citation Suter, Larry E., Linda J. Waite and Ross M. Stolzenberg. "Birth Expectations and Working Plans of Young Women: Changes in Role Choices." Final Report, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1976.

3.	Waite, Linda J. Stolzenberg, Ross M.
3.	Intended Childbearing and Labor Force Participation of Young Women: Insights from Nonrecursive Models American Sociological Review 41,2 (April 1976): 235-252. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2094471 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Children; Employment; Family Resources; Fertility; Husbands, Influence; Marital Status; Work Attitudes Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this paper, we investigate young women's fertility expectations and plans for future labor force participation (i.e., plans for labor force participation when they are 35 years old). Our analyses are based on a large national sample of women in their mid twenties (n=3589 after deletion of cases with missing data). The authors found that the number of children a woman plans to bear has only a small effect on the probability that she plans to participate in the labor force when she is 35 years old. However, it was found that a woman's plans to participate in the labor force when she is 35 have a substantial effect on the total number of children she plans to bear in her lifetime. This relationship was found for presently married and for never-married women. That same relationship was found for married women when their husbands' income and their husbands' attitudes toward their labor force participation are included in the model. Methodological implications of these findings for other studies of women's fertility and labor force activity are discussed.
	Bibliography Citation Waite, Linda J. and Ross M. Stolzenberg. "Intended Childbearing and Labor Force Participation of Young Women: Insights from Nonrecursive Models." American Sociological Review 41,2 (April 1976): 235-252.

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