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Author: Wise, Akilah
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1. Wise, Akilah
Complicating Pregnancy Intention: Early Educational Advantage and Likelihood of Unintended Births
Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Fertility; First Birth; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes

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Several studies have highlighted the importance of studying contextual factors that are relevant to pregnancy intention patterns. I hypothesized that the role of educational quality and opportunity may place women on divergent fertility trajectories, resulting in differential likelihood of unintended birth. Employing multinomial logistic regression and a novel index of educational advantage, I investigated whether educational advantages in youth are associated with pregnancy intention patterns of first births among a sample of women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY 79). The index is composed of several indicators of early educational advantages. Surprisingly, I found that women with lower educational advantages were less likely to have first births classified as mistimed. Statistical significance of educational advantages remained after the inclusion of educational attainment, lending to the contention that early educational experiences influence later fertility trajectories through multiple pathways, not only through their association with educational attainment.
Bibliography Citation
Wise, Akilah. "Complicating Pregnancy Intention: Early Educational Advantage and Likelihood of Unintended Births." Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014.
2. Wise, Akilah
Educational Advantage and Unintended Pregnancy
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan, 2015.
Also: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/111351
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Michigan
Keyword(s): Education; First Birth; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Socioeconomic Background

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

The quantitative study tests whether educational advantage in early life impacts the likelihood of unintended pregnancy among adult females using a nationally representative survey of young adults and multinomial logistic regression. I find that educational advantage predicts pregnancy intention of first births; specifically, high-advantage women were more likely to have their pregnancies classified as unintended. This finding suggests that pregnancy intention differentials by education emerge from early education processes that shape the desire to enter motherhood.
Bibliography Citation
Wise, Akilah. Educational Advantage and Unintended Pregnancy. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan, 2015..
3. Wise, Akilah
Geronimus, Arline T.
Smock, Pamela Jane
The Best of Intentions: A Structural Analysis of the Association between Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Unintended Pregnancy in a Sample of Mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979)
Women's Health Issues 27,1 (January-February 2017): 5-13.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1049386716302754
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Disadvantaged, Economically; Educational Attainment; First Birth; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Wantedness

Methods: Using multivariate regression, we analyze a sample of women in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) who had their first births by 1994. We test whether an index measure of educational advantage in youth predicts unintended first birth.

Results: Unadjusted results confirm well-documented associations between educational disadvantage and greater likelihood of unintended pregnancy. However, once covariates are controlled, those with high educational advantage in youth are more likely to report their first birth as mistimed (relative risk ratio, 1.57).

Discussion: Educational advantage captures expectations about how much education a young woman will obtain before giving birth and is a structural dynamic that precedes proximate factors related to family planning access and behaviors.

Conclusions: These findings highlight the need to incorporate structural factors that condition perceptions of pregnancy intention in the study of unintended pregnancy and to critically reevaluate the conceptualization and interpretation of pregnancy intention measures.

Bibliography Citation
Wise, Akilah, Arline T. Geronimus and Pamela Jane Smock. "The Best of Intentions: A Structural Analysis of the Association between Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Unintended Pregnancy in a Sample of Mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979)." Women's Health Issues 27,1 (January-February 2017): 5-13.