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Title: Second Births and Employment Around the First Birth: A Focused Test of Preference Theory
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Hayford, Sarah R. |
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Second Births and Employment Around the First Birth: A Focused Test of Preference Theory Presented: Boston MA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, July 2008 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Employment; Fertility; First Birth; Maternal Employment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Extensive research has established a negative relationship between womens employment and their fertility, but has not come to a conclusion about the causal nature of this relationship. In particular, it is not clear how economic and practical constraints interact with womens own desires for employment and for children. Preference theory (Hakim 2000, 2003) proposes that womens preferences for work or for family orientation determine both employment and fertility behavior largely independently of economic and social factors. In this analysis, I use longitudinal data on work and fertility intentions, fertility behavior, and labor force participation from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 cohort to test predictions generated by preference theory. I focus on the employment-fertility relationship at a particular moment in womens family formation trajectory, the time after the first birth. I find only weak support for preference theory. |
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Hayford, Sarah R. "Second Births and Employment Around the First Birth: A Focused Test of Preference Theory." Presented: Boston MA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, July 2008. |