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Sibling models of socioeconomic effects on the timing of first premarital birth
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 493–511.
Published: 01 November 1997
... births. Results show a moderate correlated risk of premarital childbearing among siblings after controlling for the effects of measured covariates. The effect of older sisters’ out-of-wedlock childbearing on the timing of younger sisters’ premarital birth is overestimated when shared unmeasured family...
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Cohort Trends in Premarital First Births: What Role for the Retreat From Marriage?
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2075–2104.
Published: 26 September 2013
...Paula England; Lawrence L. Wu; Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer Abstract We examine cohort trends in premarital first births for U.S. women born between 1920 and 1964. The rise in premarital first births is often argued to be a consequence of the retreat from marriage, with later ages at first marriage...
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View articletitled, Cohort Trends in <span class="search-highlight">Premarital</span> First <span class="search-highlight">Births</span>: What Role for the Retreat From Marriage?
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Premarital pregnancies and out-of-wedlock births in denmark, 1950–65
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 925–936.
Published: 01 June 1967
... conceived before marriage, detailed data on such births often are not available, especially in the United States. Danish statistics on first births by duration of marriage and on out-of-wedlock births permit evaluation of trends in premarital pregnancies. For the period 1950-65, they point to (1) a rise...
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Unmarried Motherhood: Recent Trends, Composition, and Black–White Differences
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 279–286.
Published: 01 May 1989
...Larry Bumpass; Sara McLanahan Abstract The National Survey of Family Growth (1982) is used to examine the extent to which racial differences in premarital birth rates can be explained by differences in parents’ socioeconomic status, family structure, and residential characteristics. The findings...
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The impact of economic resources on premarital childbearing and subsequent marriage among young American women
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Demography (2003) 40 (1): 105–126.
Published: 01 February 2003
...Arnstein Aassve Abstract This paper extends previous work on premarital childbearing by modeling both the entry rates and the exit rates of unwed motherhood among young American women. In particular, I investigate the impact of economic resources on the likelihood of experiencing a premarital birth...
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Single Motherhood and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Life Course Perspective
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1521–1549.
Published: 10 July 2013
... over women’s life course and investigate the relationship between single motherhood and child mortality in 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Although a mere 5 % of women in Ethiopia have a premarital birth, one in three women in Liberia will become mothers before first marriage. Compared...
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The Effect of Imputation Procedures on First Birth Intervals: Evidence from Five African Fertility Surveys
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 249–260.
Published: 01 May 1991
... in the proportion of premarital first births in Benin, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria. The analysis demonstrates that the exceptionally low proportion of premarital first births in Ghana is an artifact of the imputation procedures. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1991 1991...
View articletitled, The Effect of Imputation Procedures on First <span class="search-highlight">Birth</span> Intervals: Evidence from Five African Fertility Surveys
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The effect of marital status at first birth on marital dissolution among adolescent mothers
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Demography (1986) 23 (3): 329–349.
Published: 01 August 1986
... of adolescents with a premarital pregnancy who marry before the birth of the child (Zelnik and Kantner 1980; O'Connell and Rogers 1984). These trends have precipitated rather dramatic shifts in the distribution of adolescent mothers across the three possible marriage- first birth sequencing categories: I...
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Age and marital status at first birth and the pace of subsequent fertility
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Demography (1978) 15 (1): 75–86.
Published: 01 February 1978
... for them to occur concurrently. A pre- marital birth or conception can occur at any age within the childbearing span, pro- vided the woman has not been married. Since, during the adolescent years, women are less likely to be currently married than at any other time during the childbearing years, premarital...
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A Hazard Model Analysis of the Covariates of Marriage Dissolution in Canada
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 395–406.
Published: 01 August 1987
...; Carter and Glick, 1970; Gibson, 1974; McCarthy and Menken, 1979; Menken et aI., 1981; Teachman, 1982; Thornton, 1978; Weed, 1974). The U.S. studies have found that young age at marriage, premarital birth or conception, race, religion, time period of marriage, educational attainment, religiosity, rural...
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Child gender and the transition to marriage
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Demography (2003) 40 (2): 333–349.
Published: 01 May 2003
... of a child s gender on the mother s likelihood of remarriage will be less pronounced than the effect on marriage after a nonmarital birth. Our objective is to test whether a child s gender affects the mother s transition to marriage, particularly marriage after a premarital birth. The outcome of this test...
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Do siblings’ fertility decisions influence each other?
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 923–934.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Premarital Birth Family Background Variable References Åberg, Y. 2003. “Social Interactions: Studies of Contextual Effects and Endogenous Processes.” Doctoral dissertation. Department of Sociology, Stockholm University. Axinn W.G. , Clarkberg M.E. , & Thornton A. ( 1994...
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Intergenerational patterns of teenage fertility
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 February 1992
... the overall rate of teen childbearing has declined over time (because of the trend towards delayed marriage), the proportion of teen births that occur outside marriage has increased substantially (because of both increasing levels of premarital sexual activity and declining rates of legitimating premarital...
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Comparative Estimates of Teenage Illegitimacy in the United States, 1940–44 to 1970–74
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Demography (1980) 17 (1): 13–23.
Published: 01 February 1980
..., 1972; Sklar and Berkov, 1974). The CPS data will allow first births to be categorized by whether they were (a) premarital births, (b) legitimated births, or (c) postmaritally conceived births. A 14 DEMOGRAPHY, volume17, number 1, February 1980 "premarital birth" is defined as a first birth that occurs...
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Stability across cohorts in divorce risk factors
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 331–351.
Published: 01 May 2002
... literature. The list of variables considered is long and the results have varied, but a small number of sociodemographic variables have been linked consistently to the risk of divorce. These variables include age at marriage, education, premarital births and con- ception, religion, parental divorce, and race...
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Parental Divorce in Childhood and Demographic Outcomes in Young Adulthood
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 299–318.
Published: 01 August 1995
... 7, Row 1 shows that parental divorce increases the odds ratio for having a premarital birth (or becoming a father premaritally). Parental divorce, however, has little effect on the odds ratio for having a birth after marrying, as shown in Column 8, Row 1. The model in the final column ignores...
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The negligible influence of premarital cohabitation on marital fertility in current danish cohorts, 1975
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Demography (1984) 21 (2): 193–206.
Published: 01 May 1984
... analyzed by duration of marriage or by duration since previous birth, for women who had no reported births before marriage. Our main empirical results are: (a) that women who married at age 15–19 had higher rates of marital first and second births than those married at ages 20–24, and (b) that premarital...
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Reassessing the link between premarital cohabitation and marital instability
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 719–733.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., 1995, and 2002 surveys of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). These results suggest that the positive relationship between premarital cohabitation and marital instability has weakened for more recent birth and marriage cohorts. Using multiple marital outcomes for a person to account for one...
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Migration and premarital childbearing among Puerto Rican women
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 429–442.
Published: 01 November 1996
... 1996 1996 Premarital Birth Puerto Rican Woman Premarital Pregnancy Premarital Conception York Metropolitan Area References Bean,F.D. and R.R. Berg. 1991. “Cultureand Structural Assimilation and Marital Disruption among Mexican Americans.” Working Paper 13.08, Texas Population Research...
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The Initiation of Contraception
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Demography (1974) 11 (1): 75–87.
Published: 01 February 1974
... Marriage Cohort Premarital Birth References Christensen Harold T. ( 1963 ). Child Spacing Analysis via Record Linkage: New Data Plus a Summing Up from Earlier Reports . Marriage and Family Living , 25 , 272 – 280 . 10.2307/349070 Coale Ansley J. , & Tye C. V...
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