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Title: The Best of Intentions: A Structural Analysis of the Association between Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Unintended Pregnancy in a Sample of Mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979)
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Wise, Akilah Geronimus, Arline T. Smock, Pamela Jane |
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The Best of Intentions: A Structural Analysis of the Association between Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Unintended Pregnancy in a Sample of Mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) Women's Health Issues 27,1 (January-February 2017): 5-13. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1049386716302754 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Disadvantaged, Economically; Educational Attainment; First Birth; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Wantedness Methods: Using multivariate regression, we analyze a sample of women in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) who had their first births by 1994. We test whether an index measure of educational advantage in youth predicts unintended first birth. Results: Unadjusted results confirm well-documented associations between educational disadvantage and greater likelihood of unintended pregnancy. However, once covariates are controlled, those with high educational advantage in youth are more likely to report their first birth as mistimed (relative risk ratio, 1.57). Discussion: Educational advantage captures expectations about how much education a young woman will obtain before giving birth and is a structural dynamic that precedes proximate factors related to family planning access and behaviors. Conclusions: These findings highlight the need to incorporate structural factors that condition perceptions of pregnancy intention in the study of unintended pregnancy and to critically reevaluate the conceptualization and interpretation of pregnancy intention measures. |
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Wise, Akilah, Arline T. Geronimus and Pamela Jane Smock. "The Best of Intentions: A Structural Analysis of the Association between Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Unintended Pregnancy in a Sample of Mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979)." Women's Health Issues 27,1 (January-February 2017): 5-13.
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