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Title: Unexpectedly Expecting: Unintended Fertility, Nonmarital Conceptions, and Well-being among Parents and Children
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Su, Jessica Houston |
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Unexpectedly Expecting: Unintended Fertility, Nonmarital Conceptions, and Well-being among Parents and Children Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, 2014 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Children, Well-Being; Depression (see also CESD); Home Environment; Life Course; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Propensity Scores Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The second paper examines the relationship between pregnancy intentions and several metrics of child well-being over the life course (ages 0-30). This study uses longitudinal data from the NLSY79 (n = 22,247 person-year observations) and propensity score techniques to address limitations of prior research. Results indicate that children resulting from unintended pregnancies had a less emotionally supportive home environment compared to children resulting from intended pregnancies, even after accounting for the mother's marital status at birth and other characteristics associated with selection into unintended childbearing. Children resulting from unintended pregnancies also experienced more depressive symptoms as adults, which suggests that unintended birth may have long term consequences. |
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Su, Jessica Houston. Unexpectedly Expecting: Unintended Fertility, Nonmarital Conceptions, and Well-being among Parents and Children. Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, 2014. |