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Title: Trends in the Determinants of Early Childbearing
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Maxwell, Nan L. Mott, Frank L. |
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Trends in the Determinants of Early Childbearing Population and Environment 9,2 (Summer 1987): 59-73. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27503065 Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing; Contraception; Fertility; First Birth; Mothers, Race; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Status (SES) This study uses data from the Young Women and NLSY cohorts to examine the extent to which socioeconomic background factors and race have changed in their ability to predict a first birth before age 19 between 1968 and 1980 for women aged 19 to 23. The authors find little support for their hypothesis that the increasing availability of contraception and abortion for young women from all social classes reduces the traditionally strong inverse association between social class and early childbearing. There is evidence that, even after controlling for changes in socioeconomic background factors, black young women are significantly more likely than their white counterparts to bear children before age 19 in 1980 and the relative gap between races in this regard did not alter perceptibly during that period. |
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Maxwell, Nan L. and Frank L. Mott. "Trends in the Determinants of Early Childbearing." Population and Environment 9,2 (Summer 1987): 59-73.
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