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Title: Nonmarital Childbearing: Influences of Schooling, Marriage, and Prior Fertility
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Upchurch, Dawn M. Panis, Constantijn W. A. |
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Nonmarital Childbearing: Influences of Schooling, Marriage, and Prior Fertility Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Childbearing; Education Indicators; Educational Returns; Endogeneity; Fertility; Life Course; Marital Dissolution; Marital Status; Modeling, Probit; Schooling; Simultaneity Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this paper we examine the determinants of nonmarital fertility focusing on the direct effects of other life course events (educational progression, getting married, marital fertility, and marital dissolution). We model the processes jointly to explicitly accounting for their potential endogeneity using simultaneous hazard (and probit) techniques (Lillard 1993), separating the joint determination (selectivity) from direct effects. The study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). We test a series of substantive hypotheses regarding the nature of these relationships. Our empirical findings demonstrate that failure to account for the endogeneity of these life course processes leads to biased estimates, and in some cases, misleading substantive conclusions. |
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Upchurch, Dawn M. and Constantijn W. A. Panis. "Nonmarital Childbearing: Influences of Schooling, Marriage, and Prior Fertility." Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998. |