Delayed Childbearing
Author : T. J. Mathews
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Childfree choice
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Author : T. J. Mathews
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Childfree choice
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Author : Dimiter Philipov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9401794014
This book provides new insights into the significant gap that currently exists between desired and actual fertility in Europe. It examines how people make decisions about having children and demonstrates how the macro-level environment affects micro-level decision-making. Written by an international team of leading demographers and psychologists, the book presents the theoretical and methodological developments of a three-year, European Commission-funded project named REPRO (Reproductive Decision-Making in a Macro-Micro Perspective). It also provides an overview of the research conducted by REPRO researchers both during and after the project. The book examines fertility intentions from quantitative and qualitative perspectives, demonstrates how the macro-level environment affects micro-level decision-making, and offers a multi-level analysis of fertility-related norms across Europe. Overall, this book offers insight into how people make decisions to have children, when they are most likely to act on their decisions, and how different social and policy settings affect their decisions and actions. It will appeal to researchers, graduate students, and policy advisors with an interest in fertility, demography, and life-course decision making.
Author : Wendy H. Baldwin
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Childbirth
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Author : T. J. Mathews
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 2009
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Author : Barbara L. Devaney
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Childbirth
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Author : David E. Bloom
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Childbirth
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This paper presents estimates of delayed childbearing and permanent childlessness in the United States and the determinants of those phenomena.The estimates are derived by fitting the Coale-McNeil marriage model to survey data on age at first birth and by letting the parameters of the model depend on covariates. Substantively, the results provide evidence that the low first birth fertility rates experienced in the 1970's were due to both delayed childbearing and to increasing levels of permanent childlessness. The results also indicate that (a) delayed childbearing is less prevalent among blackwomen than among non-black women, (b) education and labor force participation are important determinants of delayed childbearing, (c) the influence of education and labor force participation on delayed childbearing seems to beincreasing across cohorts, (d) education is positively associated with heterogeneity among women in their age at first birth, (d) the dispersion of age at first birth is increasing across cohorts, (f) race has an insignificant effecton childlessness, and (g) education is positively associated with childlessness, with the effect of education increasing and reaching strikingly highlevels for the most recent cohorts.
Author : Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 1987-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309036984
More than 1 million teenage girls in the United States become pregnant each year; nearly half give birth. Why do these young people, who are hardly more than children themselves, become parents? This volume reviews in detail the trends in and consequences of teenage sexual behavior and offers thoughtful insights on the issues of sexual initiation, contraception, pregnancy, abortion, adoption, and the well-being of adolescent families. It provides a systematic assessment of the impact of various programmatic approaches, both preventive and ameliorative, in light of the growing scientific understanding of the topic.
Author : Jianwu Guan
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : Christine Winquist Nord
Publisher :
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : Alison Alden
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Families
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