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Source: Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
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Powers, Daniel A. |
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Effects of Family Structure on the Risk of First Premarital Birth in the Presence of Correlated Unmeasured Family Effects Working Paper, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, April 2004. Also: http://www.prc.utexas.edu/working_papers/wp_pdf/03-04-04.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Age at First Birth; Birth Outcomes; Family Structure; Siblings; Variables, Independent - Covariate Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper assesses the effects of family structure on the risk of a first premarital birth for a sample of women from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The sample reflects the family structure and family formation experiences of a cohort of women who were at risk of out of wedlock childbearing during the 1980's and early 1990's. We focus on assessing the effects of family structure in the presence of correlated unmeasured family effects, which are identified through the use of sibling data. The availability of multiple sibling respondents per family permits identification of family-level unobserved heterogeneity in a multi-level context of individuals nested within families. Our models account for family-specific sources of unobserved heterogeneity in the processes generating family structure and nonmarital hildbearing, and provide estimates of the association between these sources of unobserved heterogeneity along with the effects of family structure and other covariates. We find that accounting for the correlation between unobserved family-level effects in processes generating family structure and first premarital birth leads to attenuated estimates of the effects family structure on the risk of first premarital birth. This suggests that other family-level factors may play a mediating role in generating both family structure and nonmarital childbearing....Data from the 1993 wave of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) are used to model premarital birth outcomes. |
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Powers, Daniel A. "Effects of Family Structure on the Risk of First Premarital Birth in the Presence of Correlated Unmeasured Family Effects." Working Paper, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, April 2004. |