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Author: Edgington, Sarah
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Musick, Kelly Edgington, Sarah |
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Re-Examining Women's Wages and Fertility: Has the Relationship Changed over Time? Presented: Detroit MI, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2009. Also: http://paa2009.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=91935 Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Child Care; Childbearing; Earnings; Employment; Fertility; Labor Force Participation; Wages, Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The opportunity cost or cost-of-time perspective posits that the higher wages and better employment opportunities of the more educated make time out of the labor force for childbearing and child rearing more costly. Increased options to combine work and family, however, undermine assumptions of this model and may weaken or even reverse the negative relationship between wages and fertility. We use rich longitudinal data from two cohorts of U.S. women to explore change in the relationship between wages and fertility. |
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Musick, Kelly and Sarah Edgington. "Re-Examining Women's Wages and Fertility: Has the Relationship Changed over Time?" Presented: Detroit MI, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2009. |
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Musick, Kelly Edgington, Sarah |
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Underachieving Fertility: Education, Life Course Factors, and Cohort Change Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 29-31, 2007. Also: http://paa2007.princeton.edu/abstractViewer.aspx?submissionId=72106 Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): College Education; Education; Fertility Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Youth to examine cohort change in the relationship between fertility intentions, completed fertility, and education. While all women tend to fall short of their childbearing intentions, the gap between intended and realized fertility is greatest among the college educated. We examine what accounts for women's inability to meet their childbearing intentions, focusing in particular on how such factors differ by women's education, and whether these factors have changed over time. A common explanation of the education gap in fertility is the better employment opportunities of the more educated, which make time out of the labor force for children more costly. Increasingly, however, more educated women can substitute income for time in child care; their better marriage market opportunities may also mean more help from spouses. Have these changes led to increases the ability of college-educated women to meet their fertility intentions? |
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Musick, Kelly and Sarah Edgington. "Underachieving Fertility: Education, Life Course Factors, and Cohort Change." Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 29-31, 2007. |
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Musick, Kelly England, Paula A. Edgington, Sarah Kangas, Nicole |
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Education Differences in Intended and Unintended Fertility Social Forces 88,2 (December 2009): 543-572. Also: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_forces/summary/v088/88.2.musick.html Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Keyword(s): Abortion; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Contraception; Educational Attainment; Fertility; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Racial Differences; Sexual Behavior Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using a hazards framework and panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979-2004), we analyze the fertility patterns of a recent cohort of white and black women in the United States. We examine how completed fertility varies by women's education, differentiating between intended and unintended births. We find that the education gradient on fertility comes largely from unintended childbearing, and it is not explained by child-bearing desires or opportunity costs, the two most common explanations in previous research. Less-educated women want no more children than the more educated, so this factor explains none of their higher completed fertility. Less-educated women have lower wages, but wages have little of the negative effect on fertility predicted by economic theories of opportunity cost. We propose three other potential mechanisms linking low education and unintended childbearing, focusing on access to contraception and abortion, relational and economic uncertainty, and consistency in the behaviors necessary to avoid unintended pregnancies. Our work highlights the need to incorporate these mechanisms into future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Bibliography Citation
Musick, Kelly, Paula A. England, Sarah Edgington and Nicole Kangas. "Education Differences in Intended and Unintended Fertility." Social Forces 88,2 (December 2009): 543-572.
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