Search Results for Pregnancy

...Robert H. Weller; Isaac W. Eberstein; Mohamed Bailey 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1987 1987 Prenatal Care Maternal Smoking Maternal Behavior Unwanted Pregnancy Logit Regression References Anderson , J. C. ( 1981 ). Planning status of marital...

...Nicholas D. E. Mark; Sarah K. Cowan Abstract The prevention of unplanned or unintended pregnancies continues to be a cornerstone of U.S. reproductive health policy, but the evidence that such pregnancies cause adverse maternal and child outcomes is limited. In this research note, we examine...

... their concurrent effects on contraceptive use dynamics. This study examines the independent concurrent effects of women's fertility preferences and contraceptive intentions on subsequent adoption and discontinuation, treating pregnancy as a competing risk factor that may alter contraceptive need. The data...

... in the population. Analyses of the Child and Young Adult Cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth ( N = 3,661) confirm that teen pregnancy has negative effects on most women’s attainment and earnings. More striking, however, is that effects on college completion and early earnings vary considerably...

...Emily Smith-Greenaway; Christie Sennott Abstract Social scientists have long debated how to best measure pregnancy intentions. The standard measure relies on mothers’ retrospective reports of their intentions at the time of conception. Because women have already given birth at the time...

...Sourafel Girma; David Paton Abstract Previous work based on conjectural responses of minors predicted that the 2003 Texas requirement for parental consent for state-funded birth control to minors would lead to a large increase in underage pregnancies. We use state- and county-level data to test...

...Julie DaVanzo; Mizanur Rahman; Shahabuddin Ahmed; Abdur Razzaque Abstract We investigate factors affecting women’s decisions to terminate pregnancies in Matlab, Bangladesh, using logistic regression on high-quality data from the Demographic Surveillance System on more than 215,000 pregnancies...

...Theodore J. Joyce; Robert Kaestner; Sanders Korenman Abstract In this paper, we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to investigate the empirical link between unintended pregnancy and child health and development. An important contribution of our study is the use of information...

...Ted Joyce; Robert Kaestner; Sanders Korenman Abstract Information on pregnancy intention is often gathered retrospectively (after the birth of a child). This article investigates whether the retrospective assessment of pregnancy intention leads to biased estimates of the extent or consequences...

.... 's method arise from their particular use of a postnatal standard for the assessment of intrauterine growth.” Our critic misunderstands our objective: He fails to realize our interest in birth outcome, not pregnancy process, and does not perceive that our intent was to extend the research extant...

...Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue Abstract In this study, I used a life-table approach to estimate how much hypothetical reductions in pregnancy-related dropouts would help close the gender gap in educational attainment. Using the schooling histories of 6,686 pupils, I partitioned Cameroon’s gender gap...

... mixed findings. Using data from the U.S. National Survey of Family Growth, we employ a measure of pregnancy intentions that incorporates the extent of mistiming, as well as the desire scale developed by Santelli et al. ( Studies in Family Planning, 40 , 87–100, 2009 ). Second, we examine variation...

...Jennifer S. Barber; Karen Benjamin Guzzo; Jamie Budnick; Yasamin Kusunoki; Sarah R. Hayford; Warren Miller Abstract This article explores race differences in the desire to avoid pregnancy or become pregnant using survey data from a random sample of 914 young women (ages 18–22) living in a Michigan...

...Jessica Houston Su; Rachel Dunifon; Sharon Sassler Abstract Recent decades have seen a significant decline in mid-pregnancy (“shotgun”) marriage, particularly among disadvantaged groups, which has contributed to increasing nonmarital birth rates. Despite public and political concern about...

...Jennifer S. Barber; Jennifer Eckerman Yarger; Heather H. Gatny Abstract In this article, we use newly available data from the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) study to compare a wide range of attitudes related to pregnancy for 961 black and white young women. We also investigate...

... predicts subsequent divorce. Conservative specification of parameters linking pregnancy characteristics, selection into live birth, and divorce are sufficient to generate a selection-driven association between offspring sex and divorce, which is consequential in magnitude. Our findings illustrate the value...

...Elizabeth Frankenberg; Duncan Thomas Abstract We use data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey to investigate the impact of a major expansion in access to midwifery services on health and pregnancy outcomes for women of reproductive age. Between 1990 and 1998 Indonesia trained some 50,000 midwives...

...Molly A. Martin; Tiffany L. Green; Alexander Chapman Abstract Income is positively correlated with pregnancy health and birth outcomes, but the causal evidence for this association is limited. Leveraging a natural experiment based on the Pennsylvania boom economy created by the extraction...

... that could also shape relationship stability, such as pregnancy scares. A pregnancy scare is when a woman suspects she has an undesired pregnancy but later discovers she is not pregnant. This experience might increase or decrease relationship stability. Drawing on data collected from young women...

...John Stoeckel; A. K. M. Alauddin Choudhury Abstract Pregnancy termination intervals, i.e., live birth to live birth (LB-LB), live birth to fetal loss (LB-FL), and fetal loss to live birth (FL-LB), are analyzed prospectively between 1966 and 1970 in a rural population (117,000) of Bangladesh...