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Percheski, Christine Jao, Yu-Han |
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Cohort Change in Family Formation Patterns in the United States: Evidence from NLSY79 and NLSY97 Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Family Formation; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Parenthood Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. McLanahan (2004) and others have argued that the diffusion of family formation behaviors associated with the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) has been patterned by social inequality, creating divergent family trajectories for women of different social class backgrounds. In this paper, we investigate whether there have been cohort changes in how predictive natal family and personal characteristics are of family formation pathways among two recent birth cohorts of women, 1957-64 and 1980-84. Using longitudinal data from NLSY79 and NSLY97, we find substantial declines across cohorts in the share of the population following the "traditional" pathway of early marriage and marital parenthood and increases in the share following single parenthood and delayed parenthood pathways. We find that the natal family and personal characteristics that predict each pathway did not change much across cohorts for non-Hispanic whites but that there were notable changes for Hispanic and non-Hispanic black women. |
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Percheski, Christine and Yu-Han Jao. "Cohort Change in Family Formation Patterns in the United States: Evidence from NLSY79 and NLSY97." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016. |