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Title: Intended Childbearing and Labor Force Participation of Young Women: Insights from Nonrecursive Models
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Waite, Linda J. Stolzenberg, Ross M. |
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Intended Childbearing and Labor Force Participation of Young Women: Insights from Nonrecursive Models American Sociological Review 41,2 (April 1976): 235-252. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2094471 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Children; Employment; Family Resources; Fertility; Husbands, Influence; Marital Status; Work Attitudes Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this paper, we investigate young women's fertility expectations and plans for future labor force participation (i.e., plans for labor force participation when they are 35 years old). Our analyses are based on a large national sample of women in their mid twenties (n=3589 after deletion of cases with missing data). The authors found that the number of children a woman plans to bear has only a small effect on the probability that she plans to participate in the labor force when she is 35 years old. However, it was found that a woman's plans to participate in the labor force when she is 35 have a substantial effect on the total number of children she plans to bear in her lifetime. This relationship was found for presently married and for never-married women. That same relationship was found for married women when their husbands' income and their husbands' attitudes toward their labor force participation are included in the model. Methodological implications of these findings for other studies of women's fertility and labor force activity are discussed. |
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Waite, Linda J. and Ross M. Stolzenberg. "Intended Childbearing and Labor Force Participation of Young Women: Insights from Nonrecursive Models." American Sociological Review 41,2 (April 1976): 235-252.
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