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Title: Racial, Ethnic, and Nativity Differences in Marriage and Premarital Pregnancy Outcomes

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1.	Delgado, Enilda Arbona
1.	Racial, Ethnic, and Nativity Differences in Marriage and Premarital Pregnancy Outcomes Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Wisconsin -- Madison, 2000. DAI 61,11A (2000): 4560 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Cohabitation; Demography; Ethnic Differences; Ethnic Studies; Fertility; Marriage; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Racial Studies This dissertation explores racial, ethnic and nativity differences in marriage and premarital pregnancy outcomes. In addition, it explores other characteristics that significantly affect the hazard of experiencing a marriage prior to a conception or a premarital birth. I am particularly interested in the women who have premarital conception that results in a live birth and the attributes that distinguish the women who marry while pregnant from the women who have a premarital birth. I focus on some of the variables previous researchers have shown to impact marriage and fertility transitions, including race, ethnicity and nativity; family structure; parental education; religious attendance; and employment, enrollment and cohabitation histories. The results gathered from Cox proportional hazard analysis and logit statistical analysis on sixteen years of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979 cohort suggest that studies on the timing of fertility and marriage should avoid the treatment of Latinas as a homogeneous group. Focusing on the rate of marriage prior to conception, I find that controlling for social background characteristics, values and attitudes, and employment, enrollment and cohabitation; Mexican women born in the United States have significantly lower rates of marriage prior to conception relative to White women. This finding lends some support to the stronger cultural adherence to the marriage ideal among foreign-born Mexicans than among Mexicans born in the United States. Previous research has shown the rate of premarital births to be higher among Latinas relative to White women. However, once distinctions are made by country of origin and nativity, I find that controlling for social background characteristics, second- or greater generation Latinas have increased hazards of premarital conception. Foreign-born Mexican women demonstrate a higher risk of first fertile premarital conception relative to white women after controlling for cohabitation. While previous research has found a lower likelihood of legitimation subsequent to a premarital pregnancy among Latinas, I find that only non-Mexican Latinas who are born in the United States (primarily Puerto Rican women) have significantly lower odds of legitimation relative to White women. All other Latinas have legitimation rates that are indistinguishable from those of White women.
	Bibliography Citation Delgado, Enilda Arbona. Racial, Ethnic, and Nativity Differences in Marriage and Premarital Pregnancy Outcomes. Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Wisconsin -- Madison, 2000. DAI 61,11A (2000): 4560.

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