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Title: Reproductive Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: How Economic Preferences Shape Reproductive Behavior
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Karasek, Deborah |
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Reproductive Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: How Economic Preferences Shape Reproductive Behavior Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Contraception; Fertility; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Risk-Taking Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Measures of risk aversion and temporal discounting have long been included in population surveys to examine economic behavior. Little research has examined how these preferences affect decision-making surrounding fertility intention, contraceptive behavior and unintended pregnancy, an area where intention-behavior inconsistencies are widely acknowledged. I test if individual risk tolerance and temporal discounting are associated with contraceptive use and fertility intention, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Preliminary results indicate that women who are most risk tolerant are more likely to report using abstinence and low efficacy methods, but also slightly more likely to report the highest efficacy methods. The most risk averse women appear least likely to experience an unwanted pregnancy. Results of this work will inform a conceptual model for how risk perception and time preferences affect reproductive health behaviors and outcomes, and how this pathway may be modified by different social contexts. |
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Karasek, Deborah. "Reproductive Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: How Economic Preferences Shape Reproductive Behavior." Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017. |