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Published: 16 January 2019
Fig. 1 Women who want to delay childbearing, by age of youngest living child. N = 1,773 women interviewed at Wave 2 with nonmissing data on fertility desires.
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2271–2293.
Published: 01 December 2022
... competing desires. Using novel weekly panel data, this analysis assesses how desires for sex may moderate the effect of the desire to avoid pregnancy on a young woman's sexual behavior and contraceptive use. Findings suggest that when a woman strongly wants to avoid pregnancy, she is less likely to have sex...
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View articletitled, What a (Young) Woman <span class="search-highlight">Wants</span>: Concurrent Effects of Desire to Avoid Pregnancy and Desire for Sex on Sexual Intercourse and Contraceptive Use
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Does It Matter What She Wants? The Role of Individual Preferences Against Unmarried Motherhood in Young Women’s Likelihood of a Nonmarital First Birth
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1451–1475.
Published: 05 July 2017
... that women’s intentions about whether they want children, and the number of children they wish to have, are strong predictors of their eventual fertility outcomes (Hayford 2009 ; Schoen et al. 1999 ). Similarly, couples’ intent to marry strongly predicts their likelihood of marrying (Guzzo 2009 ; Waller...
View articletitled, Does It Matter What She <span class="search-highlight">Wants</span>? The Role of Individual Preferences Against Unmarried Motherhood in Young Women’s Likelihood of a Nonmarital First Birth
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Unadjusted survival curves for children from unwanted and wanted pregnancie...
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in Selection Bias in the Link Between Child Wantedness and Child Survival: Theory and Data From Matlab, Bangladesh
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Published: 14 January 2015
Fig. 2 Unadjusted survival curves for children from unwanted and wanted pregnancies in Matlab, 1990–2000. Hazard ratio is 0.997, with standard error of 0.124
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in Contraceptive Use and Discontinuation Among Adolescent Women in 55 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Published: 01 April 2025
Fig. 4 Discontinuation rate (discontinuations per person-month) by category (discontinued while not wanting to get pregnant, discontinued while wanting to get pregnant or while perceiving low to no risk of getting pregnant, or method failure), age group (≤19 years and 20–49 years), and region
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Desired family size in Thailand: Are the responses meaningful?
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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 619–637.
Published: 01 November 1973
... they have when stating the number they would want if they were recently married, the vast majority of respondents prefer a number which is different from the number of living children they had at the time of the interview. Women who had already reached or exceeded their desired number were almost universal...
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Pregnancies in the United States by Desire for Pregnancy: Estimates for 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2015
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 837–863.
Published: 01 June 2023
... at about the right time, later than wanted, too soon, or not wanted at all, and those for which individuals expressed other feelings, including uncertainty, ambivalence, or indifference. We calculate the proportionate distributions of these pregnancies and rates among U.S. women aged 15–44, as well...
View articletitled, Pregnancies in the United States by Desire for Pregnancy: Estimates for 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2015
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2019–2028.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Amanda Jean Stevenson Abstract In this research note, I estimate one component of the mortality impact of denying all wanted induced abortions in the United States. This estimate quantifies the magnitude of an increase in pregnancy-related deaths that would occur solely because of the greater...
View articletitled, The Pregnancy-Related Mortality Impact of a Total Abortion Ban in the United States: A Research Note on Increased Deaths Due to Remaining Pregnant
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Effects of various factors on selection for family planning status and natural fecundability: A simulation study
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Demography (1978) 15 (1): 87–98.
Published: 01 February 1978
... nonusers, and pregnant women are compared. These ratios are influenced by duration of marriage and by desired number of children. Effects of different levels of contraception are measured. Another strategy, spacing the last two wanted births, is also studied. It is found that breast-feeding status has...
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The poor as a “perfect contraceptive population” and zero population growth
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Demography (1972) 9 (3): 507–510.
Published: 01 August 1972
...Karl E. Bauman Abstract A goal of the federal family planning program is to enable women to have only those children they want, with priority given to the poor. Is that compatible with the goal of those who want zero population growth? This analysis shows that prevention of all unwanted births...
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The formation and stability of ideal family size among young people
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Demography (1970) 7 (1): 43–51.
Published: 01 February 1970
... of 1.56 and 5.96. Ideal and acceptable family sizes increase slightly in the higher grades. A sex difference in ideals appeared only at grade 12; girls wanted more children. Negroes wanted fewer children than did whites at grade 6, more at grade 12. Size of family of orientation was directly related...
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Fertility desires and fertility: Hers, his, and theirs
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Demography (1990) 27 (4): 579–588.
Published: 01 November 1990
... the classic Princeton Fertility Surveys, we find relatively large husband effects on fertility outcomes as well as unique effects of spousal disagreement. Wives and husbands were equally likely to achieve fertility desires, and disagreeing couples experienced fertility rates midway between couples who wanted...
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Mortality level, desired family size and population increase: Further variations on a basic model
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Demography (1969) 6 (2): 141–149.
Published: 01 May 1969
...David M. Heer; Dean O. Smith Abstract A series of computer-simulation models relating mortality level to fertility behavior and to rates of natural increase assuming that couples made use of a perfect means of birth control, that they wanted to be highly certain of having at least one son survive...
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The effects of formal church affiliation and religiosity on the fertility patterns of Mexican-American catholics
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Demography (1973) 10 (1): 19–36.
Published: 01 February 1973
... of religiosity. Each model, tested separately for husbands and wives, examines the effects of religion on types of contraceptive methods used and on wanted family size. Although the majority of Mexican Americans are Catholics and tend to have large families, religion does not seem to have the same effect...
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Has the Chinese family planning policy been successful in changing fertility preferences?
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 557–572.
Published: 01 August 2002
... and show when and where women change from wanting to not wanting more children. The acceptance of policy-sanctioned family size follows a development gradient and reflects the degree of enforcement. High acceptance occurs in the most urban, industrialized county and in the county with the most rigid family...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1931–1954.
Published: 01 October 2021
... unrelated to mothers' housework and childcare. We also show that fathers' involvement in housework plays a more important role than involvement in childcare. The role of fathers' involvement in housework is confirmed when we consider women who initially wanted or intended to have a child, whose partner also...
View articletitled, Fathers' Involvement in the Family, Fertility, and Maternal Employment: Evidence From Central and Eastern Europe
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How Nearby Homicides Affect Young Women's Pregnancy Desires: Evidence From a Quasi-Experiment
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 927–950.
Published: 01 June 2021
...: although average desires to become pregnant and to avoid pregnancy differed after initial exposure, these differences emerged approximately three to five months post-exposure. Repeated exposure to nearby homicides had nonlinear effects on how much women wanted to become pregnant and how much they wanted...
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The evolution of fertility expectations over the life course
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 765–783.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Sarah R. Hayford Abstract In low-fertility contexts, how many children people have is largely a product of how many children they want. However, the social, institutional, and individual factors that influence how many children people want are not well understood. In particular, there is scant...
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Selection Bias in the Link Between Child Wantedness and Child Survival: Theory and Data From Matlab, Bangladesh
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 61–82.
Published: 14 January 2015
...Fig. 2 Unadjusted survival curves for children from unwanted and wanted pregnancies in Matlab, 1990–2000. Hazard ratio is 0.997, with standard error of 0.124 ...
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Desired Fertility and Number of Children Born Across Time and Space
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 55–83.
Published: 19 January 2016
... to reduce population growth). We study the relationship between wanted fertility and number of children born in a panel of 200 country-years controlling for country fixed effects and global time trends. In general, we find a close relationship between wanted and actual fertility, with one desired child...
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