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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1301–1325.
Published: 01 August 2021
... their transition into motherhood than among those who have an unplanned first birth. Among those who remain employed, we find that those with a planned first birth work fewer hours and have lower wages relative to those with unplanned births. We do not find significant evidence that the association between...
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Demography (1975) 12 (4): 573–580.
Published: 01 November 1975
... to reconstruct from the two surveys an an- nual series for the decade of rates of planned and unplanned births for vari- ous subgroups of the population. CONCLUSIONS These, then, are the principal substan- tive findings of the 1970 NFS to date. Other investigators as well as ourselves will continue to probe...
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 407–412.
Published: 01 August 1987
... unplanned births tend to be less educated than others (Anderson, 1981); educational attainment is also positively associated with obtaining early prenatal care (Taffel, 1978). A number of other maternal characteristics are related to birth planning status as well as prenatal care patterns. These include...
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Demography (1971) 8 (1): 37–48.
Published: 01 February 1971
... the final average number of children closely approximated the average desires 20 years earlier (Westoff, et al., 1957,pp. 491-497). Birth control effectiveness information was gained by determining the planned- unplanned status of pregnancies based on a general classification of the extent to which...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 61–78.
Published: 01 March 1968
... raza, clase o religión. Family Planning Family Size Male Fertility High Motivation Unplanned Pregnancy References 1 P. K. , Whelpton , & Clyde V. , Kiser ( 1946 ). Social and Psychological Factors Affecting Fertility . New York : The Milbank Memorial Fund . 2...
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Demography (1998) 35 (3): 315–322.
Published: 01 August 1998
... a birth. The figure was 6% if the partners had opposing childbearing plans. Thus, both men and women exerted veto power over further childbearing. Disagreements were equally likely to be resolved in favor of the woman as of the man, and effects of partners’ plans on the birth hazard did not depend...
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Demography (1987) 24 (4): 553–561.
Published: 01 November 1987
... (Burnham, 1983; Henshaw and O'Reilly, 1983; Prager, 1985). Taken together, these findings suggest that those women who would find childbearing most costly resort to abortion. For example, unplanned and unintended pregnancies, physical risks, normative pressure against a nonmarital birth, or the possibility...
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 445–454.
Published: 01 November 1969
... to prevent unwanted births, there is a relationship between the proportion of pregnancies that were planned and the achievement of desired family size. This is not surprising, of course, since the measure used relates to all pregnancies, with the consequence that some of the unplanned pregnancies are also...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 371–388.
Published: 01 February 2022
... in desired fertility: women bear fewer children because they prefer to have smaller families as a response to changing balances of childbearing costs and benefits ( Davis 1967 ; Galor 2012 ; Pritchett 1994 ). Documented declines in unwanted and unplanned births ( Bearak et al. 2018 ; Sedgh et al. 2014...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 37–49.
Published: 01 February 2022
.... ( 2000 ). The effect of pregnancy intention on child development . Demography , 37 , 83 – 94 . Kost K. , Landry D. J. , & Darroch J. E. ( 1998 ). The effects of pregnancy planning status on birth outcomes and infant care . Family Planning Perspectives , 30 , 223 – 230...
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 59–75.
Published: 01 February 1999
... include marital status because marriage rep- resents a "significant transition, especially in the onset of planned childbearing" (Bumpass and Raley 1995:107). 59 60 age of the mother. The younger the mother at the time of the birth, the more likely the birth will be nonmarital (see Trussell and Menken...
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Demography (1990) 27 (4): 483–498.
Published: 01 November 1990
... of nonmarital sex. More than two-thirds of nonmarital births are reported by their mothers as unplanned. 10 Hence I argue that the increase has been driven far more by changing orientations toward marriage, and the reduced stigma of nonmarital childbearing, than by desires to have children out of wedlock. II...
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Demography (1978) 15 (2): 139–159.
Published: 01 May 1978
... Women . American Sociological Review , 41 , 235 – 251 . 10.2307/2094471 Westoff , Charles F. ( 1976 ). The Decline of Unplanned Births in the United States . Science , 191 , 38 – 41 . 10.1126/science.1246597 Westoff , Charles F. , & Ryder , N. B. ( 1977...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1477–1500.
Published: 10 July 2014
...Alfredo Burlando Abstract Determining whether power outages have significant fertility effects is an important policy question in developing countries, where blackouts are common and modern forms of family planning are scarce. Using birth records from Zanzibar, this study shows that a month-long...
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Demography (1979) 16 (1): 37–47.
Published: 01 February 1979
... should prove useful to further research. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1979 1979 School Enrollment Birth Control Method Marital Fertility Physician Density Family Planning Perspective References Blake J. ( 1965 ). Demographic Science...
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Demography (1974) 11 (4): 695–708.
Published: 01 November 1974
... popu- lation, Po I-po's call in 1964 for a cut- back of 20 million urban residents over the next several years, and the planned and unplanned movements during the Cultural Revolution in 196&-1968. In the following chapter, under the heading of "Population Transfers and Land Reclamation," Tien takes...
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 439–460.
Published: 01 May 2008
... important. The need to contracept effectively is lower. In addition, because births occur early in life, the constraint imposed by the biological clock is less likely to be binding. However, for more-educated women, the costs of an early, unplanned pregnancy are high in terms of lost lifetime income...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 83–111.
Published: 09 January 2015
... than two years are more similar in these life course measures to intended births than they are to births mistimed by two or more years. This conclusion is not surprising: women who identify their desired timing of fertility in such narrow terms may have engaged in a process of planning similar...
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 435–443.
Published: 01 November 1998
... ). Determinants of Unintended Childbearing Among Ever-Married Women in the United States: 1973–1988 . Family Planning Perspectives , 23 ( 5 ), 212 – 21 . 10.2307/2135755 Zuravin , S.J. ( 1991 ). Unplanned Childbearing and Family Size: Their Relationship to Child Neglect and Abuse . Family...
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 455–479.
Published: 01 November 1977
..., D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office . Vital Statistics of the United States, 1972. Vol. I. Natality . ( 1976 ). Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office . Westoff , C. ( 1976 ). The Decline of Unplanned Births in the United States . Science , 191 , 38 – 41 . 10.1126...
