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Title: Nonmarital Childbearing: Influences of Education, Marriage, and Fertility
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Upchurch, Dawn M. Lillard, Lee A. Panis, Constantijn W. A. |
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Nonmarital Childbearing: Influences of Education, Marriage, and Fertility Demography 39, 2 (May 2002): 311-329. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/w173r5810x4g1j8g/ Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Childbearing; Divorce; Education; Educational Attainment; Endogeneity; Family Formation; Fertility; Life Course; Marital Dissolution; Marital Status; Marriage; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We examined the determinants of nonmarital fertility, focusing on the effects of other life-course events: education, marriage, marital dissolution, and marital fertility. Since these determinants are potentially endogenous, we modeled the processes that generate them jointly with nonmarital fertility and accounted for the sequencing of events and the unobserved correlations across processes. The results showed that the risk of nonmarital conception increases immediately after leaving school and that the educational effects are less pronounced for black women than for other women. The risk is lower for previously married women than for never-married women, even controlling for age, but this reduction is only significant for black women. The more children a woman already has, the lower her risk of nonmarital childbearing, particularly if the other children were born during a previous marriage. Ignoring endogeneity issues seriously biases the estimates of several substantively important effects. |
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Upchurch, Dawn M., Lee A. Lillard and Constantijn W. A. Panis. "Nonmarital Childbearing: Influences of Education, Marriage, and Fertility." Demography 39, 2 (May 2002): 311-329.
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