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Title: Timing of Childbearing and Disability in Older Age
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Spence, Naomi J. |
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Timing of Childbearing and Disability in Older Age Presented: Los Angeles, CA, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March-April 2006. Also: http://paa2007.princeton.edu/abstractViewer.aspx?submissionId=71518 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Age at Birth; Childbearing; Childbearing, Adolescent; Disability; Fertility; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Life Course; Mothers, Education Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Fertility is central to the life experiences of women. As such, it has consequences for all aspects of their lives and implications for their long-term well-being, yet how fertility matters in the later years is relatively unknown. Using data on a nationally representative cohort of women in the United States, I examine the relationship between the timing of childbearing and disability in later life as measured by functional limitations and ADL limitations with attention to the mediating effects of early life and adult social and economic circumstances and later life health. Preliminary results indicate that early and premarital initiation of childbearing is positively associated with disability, though these effects are accounted for by educational attainment and adult socioeconomic status, respectively. Late childbearing is also found to be associated with an increased likelihood of having ADL limitations, but again educational attainment and adult social and economic characteristics explain this relationship. I employ data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women (NLS-MW. Multistage probability sampling was used to draw a representative sample of 5,393 civilian, noninstitutionalized women aged 30-44 years in 1967, with an oversample of Black women (see US Department of Labor 2005 for more detailed information). Of those women, 94 percent participated in the baseline (1967) interview (N=5,083). Since then, the cohort has been interviewed a total of 20 times through 2003, when 2,237 (44 percent) of the original respondents were surveyed. Although the NLS-MW is well suited for studying the links between fertility timing and later life health, it is very well suited for the task. Data were gathered on the timing of women's childbearing, a wide range of socioeconomic status measures throughout the life course, and various dimensions of health in later life. Finally, the NLS-MW is one of the most extensive, long-running data collection efforts carr ied out with a cohort of Americans, providing a unique opportunity to study women at various life course stages with a sizeable sample to sustain multivariate analyses. |
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Spence, Naomi J. "Timing of Childbearing and Disability in Older Age." Presented: Los Angeles, CA, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March-April 2006. |