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in Life After Loss: A Prospective Analysis of Mortality Exposure and Unintended Fertility
> Demography
Published: 01 April 2022
Fig. 3 Cumulative incidence of unintended pregnancy over two-year study period, by intensity of mortality exposure. The figure presents the cumulative incidence of unintended pregnancy versus no pregnancy (as intended) while accounting for the competing risk of intended pregnancy. Estimates were
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 805–834.
Published: 05 May 2016
... of findings, given that unobserved factors are accounted for, standard errors are inflated, and unintendedness spills over to disadvantage all children (Barber and East 2011 ). However, the models also produce results in the opposite direction. The most plausible explanation for the reversal in direction...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1089–1113.
Published: 01 August 2023
... pregnancy. However, few studies have examined individual patterns of contraceptive use over time. These trajectories are important to understand given the high rate of unintended pregnancy and how little we know about the complex relationship between contraceptive use, pregnancy intention, and patterns...
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Published: 01 October 2023
Fig. 2 Predicted probability of an unintended pregnancy that results in live birth, by state-level abortion policy hostility index level. Predicted probabilities and corresponding 95% confidence intervals are calculated at each level of the state-level abortion policy hostility index (which
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Published: 01 October 2023
Fig. 3 Predicted probability of an unintended pregnancy that results in live birth, by state-level abortion policy hostility index level, according to sociodemographic strata. Predicted probabilities and corresponding 95% confidence intervals are calculated at each level of the state-level
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2057–2084.
Published: 30 November 2020
...Elly Field Abstract Decades of research have attempted to understand the paradox of stubbornly high unintended pregnancy rates despite widespread use of contraception. Much of this research has focused on socioeconomic disparities in rates of unintended pregnancy, finding that economically...
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1469–1491.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Fig. 2 Predicted probability of an unintended pregnancy that results in live birth, by state-level abortion policy hostility index level. Predicted probabilities and corresponding 95% confidence intervals are calculated at each level of the state-level abortion policy hostility index (which...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 563–585.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Fig. 3 Cumulative incidence of unintended pregnancy over two-year study period, by intensity of mortality exposure. The figure presents the cumulative incidence of unintended pregnancy versus no pregnancy (as intended) while accounting for the competing risk of intended pregnancy. Estimates were...
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1727–1751.
Published: 31 August 2020
... partners are a more assimilated group than Hispanics in same-race unions. Results for pregnancy intentions deviated from these patterns. Women in White-Black cohabitations were less likely than Black women in same-race cohabitations to have an unintended pregnancy, suggesting that White-Black cohabitations...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 37–49.
Published: 01 February 2022
...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...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 887–909.
Published: 02 May 2017
...Elizabeth J. Ela; Jamie Budnick Abstract Non-heterosexual young women have a higher rate of unintended pregnancy than their heterosexual peers, but their fertility behaviors are understudied. We use longitudinal data from the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life study to investigate mechanisms...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1433–1452.
Published: 04 August 2012
...Krystale E. Littlejohn Abstract The unintended pregnancy rate in the United States remains high, and there are large race and education differences in unintended pregnancy and fertility. These differences make it important to study race and education differences in contraceptive behavior. Using...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2047–2056.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., we elaborate this paradox: widespread unintendedness and meaningful, highly predictive fertility desires can and do coexist. Using data from Malawi, we demonstrate the predictive validity of numeric fertility timing desires over both four-month and one-year periods. We find that fertility timing...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 83–94.
Published: 01 February 2000
...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...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1327–1346.
Published: 01 August 2021
... prevalence. Research on LARCs has analyzed their use to reduce unintended pregnancies but not their use to enable intended pregnancies. Knowledge of both is necessary to understand LARCs’ potential impacts on the reproductive life courses of U.S. women. We combine data from two nationally representative...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1399–1428.
Published: 13 September 2016
... spanning 2.5 years. We investigate hypotheses about dynamic processes in these behaviors during early adulthood in order to shed light on persisting racial differences in rates of unintended pregnancies in the United States. We find that net of other sociodemographic characteristics and adolescent...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., they are less effective than other contraceptive methods and do not reduce the risk of STIs. We test whether an exogenous policy change that increased access to ECPs leads people to substitute away from other methods of contraception, such as condoms, thereby increasing the risk of both unintended pregnancy...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 157–171.
Published: 01 February 2008
... to specified states. Applying these methods to contraceptive use, we find high levels of switching back and forth, particularly between barrier methods and non-use, resulting in high rates of unintended pregnancy. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2008 2008 Life Table Unintended...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 199–213.
Published: 01 February 2002
... of unintended fertility. Comparisons are made between pregnancy intentions ascertained during pregnancy and after birth using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. To address the bias caused by selective recognition or acknowledgment of pregnancy, we used the longitudinal feature of the data...
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Published: 01 October 2023
Fig. 1 Percentage of pregnancies that resulted in live birth that were unintended, by state, 2012–2018. Map was created from author's own analysis of PRAMS data, using mapchart.net . Data are weighted to account for deliberate survey oversampling. Weighted sample is representative of the PRAMS
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