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Title: Fertility, Education, and Couple Dynamics: Three Essays on Childbearing Behavior in the United States and Germany
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Nitsche, Natalie |
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Fertility, Education, and Couple Dynamics: Three Essays on Childbearing Behavior in the United States and Germany Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 2014 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Births, Repeat / Spacing; Educational Attainment; Fertility; Gender Attitudes/Roles; Husbands; Socioeconomic Factors; Wives Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The third chapter uses the NLSY79 to investigate the relationship between relative socio-economic resources and birth hazards among married US couples. The data don't contain time use measures, which means that the division of housework could not been included. The models, however, control for gender role preferences of the wives. In this chapter, the analyses are set up in a competing risk framework, to allow for the competing risk of union dissolution. Similar to the results on Germany in chapter two, the findings show that relative education is significantly related to second birth hazards, with highly educated homogamous couples displaying higher second birth transition rates. Relative income and gendered work arrangements appear, in contrast, not to have any significant association with first or second birth hazards in this cohort of married US couples. The latter two chapters contribute new evidence to a young but growing literature that examines couple-level effects on fertility. |
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Nitsche, Natalie. Fertility, Education, and Couple Dynamics: Three Essays on Childbearing Behavior in the United States and Germany. Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 2014. |