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Title: Individual and Aggregate Influences on the Age at First Birth
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Maxwell, Nan L. |
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Individual and Aggregate Influences on the Age at First Birth Population Research and Policy Review 10,1 (1991): 27-46. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/v378603h76581167/ Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Childbearing; First Birth; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study examines the influence of individual demand factors and aggregate period and cohort effects on the age at first childbirth for blacks, whites, and three cohorts of mothers. Data from the NLS of Mature Women and Young Women were used to construct three birth cohorts of women: women born between 1923 and 1929, 1930 and 1937, and 1944 and 1954. Results reconcile the discrepancy between increased opportunity cost of childbearing and decreased age at first childbirth by showing dominate aggregate influences for blacks and for more recent cohorts of women. For the early baby-boom cohort, there is a relative strengthening in the influence of both aggregate period and cohort effects and individual demand factors on initial childbearing timing. The study also uncovers potential estimation bias in examining age at first childbirth with indirect aggregate influences operating through individual factors for recent cohorts and spurious correlation existing between individual factors and aggregate influences. |
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Maxwell, Nan L. "Individual and Aggregate Influences on the Age at First Birth." Population Research and Policy Review 10,1 (1991): 27-46.
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