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Title: Fertility in the U.S. Military - Evidence from the NLSY
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Hickes, Jennifer M. Smith, Herbert L. |
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Fertility in the U.S. Military - Evidence from the NLSY Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 2001 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Fertility; Marital Status; Military Personnel Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper is an attempt to clarify the status of fertility among military women. We begin by comparing the fertility of those military women available in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) with civilian women drawn from a parallel sample. We have already commented on the complex selection processes involved in getting into and out of a longitudinal sample of military personnel, and these selection processes interact directly with the various arguments just described. Any direct comparison of military with non-military fertility (or pregnancy) runs the risk of confounding organizational aspects of the military as "cause" (e.g., health care benefits) with antecedent characteristics of the military. Similarly, the design of the NLSY creates challenges: it starts as a cross-section of military personnel, who then depart for reasons indirectly (e.g., age) or directly (e.g., pregnancy) related to fertility. To deal with these problems, we have adopted an analysis strategy based on matching, since the civilian sample in the NLSY yields a large reservoir of apposite controls suitable for very focused comparisons. |
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Hickes, Jennifer M. and Herbert L. Smith. "Fertility in the U.S. Military - Evidence from the NLSY." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 2001. |