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Author: Delgado, Enilda Arbona
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1. Cook, Steven T.
Delgado, Enilda Arbona
Coping With a Pre-Maritally Conceived Birth
Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Birth Outcomes; Childbearing, Adolescent; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; College Enrollment; Family Structure; Financial Assistance; High School Completion/Graduates; Marital Status; Welfare

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Births that occur to young women, especially those which are conceived before first marriage, will likely result in difficult decisions about where and with whom she should live, and how she should support herself and her child. These decisions will likely be influenced by personal characteristics of the young mother and her living arrangements before the conception. We use data from the 1979-1992 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to examine the distributions of living arrangements and financial support arrangement of young women after a premaritally conceived birth. We also model the effects of pre-conception characteristics on post-birth outcomes using multinomial logistic regressions. Our findings show that minority status, and coming from a non-intact family tend to reduce the likelihood of marriage after a premarital conception, and reduce the private financial resources available to the new mother. High school graduation and college attendance, on the othe r hand, increase the likelihood of staying off welfare.
Bibliography Citation
Cook, Steven T. and Enilda Arbona Delgado. "Coping With a Pre-Maritally Conceived Birth." Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998.
2. Cook, Steven T.
Delgado, Enilda Arbona
Sandefur, Gary D.
Coping with a Premaritally-Conceived Birth
CDE Working Paper No. 98-18, Center for Demography and Ecology, 1998.
Also: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu:80/cde/cdewp/98-18ab.htm
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Center for Demography and Ecology
Keyword(s): Childbearing; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Cohabitation; Economic Well-Being; Fertility; Marital Stability; Mothers, Education; Mothers, Race; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Residence

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Births that are conceived before a first marriage result in difficult decisions about where and with whom the mother should live, and how she should support herself and her child. These decisions are influenced by personal characteristics of the young mother and by her living arrangements and activities before the conception. We use data from the 1979-1992 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to examine the distributions of living arrangements and the economic wellbeing of young women after a birth that results from a premarital pregnancy. Our findings show that approximately 37 percent of the young women who have such births live with their husbands in the year following the birth, while 1/3 live with their parents, 12 percent cohabit, and 18 percent are on their own and unmarried. Race, education, living arrangements prior to conception, and other characteristics of the mothers are associated with living arrangements and economic wellbeing after the birth has occurred. Available on-line only.
Bibliography Citation
Cook, Steven T., Enilda Arbona Delgado and Gary D. Sandefur. "Coping with a Premaritally-Conceived Birth." CDE Working Paper No. 98-18, Center for Demography and Ecology, 1998.
3. 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
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.
4. Delgado, Enilda Arbona
Sandefur, Gary D.
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Legitimation
Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America, May 1996
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing, Adolescent; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Ethnic Differences; Fertility; First Birth; Marital Status; Racial Differences

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Studies of racial and ethnic differences in the probability of legitimation tend to focus on the difference between African Americans and Whites, while omitting the legitimation rate of Latina women. During the 1975-78 period, "eight percent of premaritally conceived first births to black teenagers [were] being legitimated, whereas 58 percent of premaritally conceived first births to white teenagers were legitimated" (O'Connell and Moore, p23). Although, similar results were reported by Parnell et al., they also found the expectations of marital union formation to be important in determining racial differences in legitimation. Black women are less likely to anticipate an early marriage, but those that do are more likely to legitimate a premarital conception than white women with similar expectations. This paper explore differences in legitimation between blacks, Latinas, and whites. This is done by examining two key events: (1) a conception prior to marriage that is carried to term and (2) marriage subsequent to the conception of the child, either before or after the child is born. In addition, marriages that occur prior to birth are examined.
Bibliography Citation
Delgado, Enilda Arbona and Gary D. Sandefur. "Racial and Ethnic Differences in Legitimation." Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America, May 1996.