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Understanding Variation in Cohabitation through a Lens of Marital Expectations and Fertility Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 2019 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Expectations/Intentions; Fertility Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Dramatic shifts in family formation processes over the last decades of the 20th century in the United States altered the way people think about childbearing outside of marriage. Although the proportion of births to cohabiting couples has increased and childbearing within cohabitation became a commonplace experience in the United States, many still see childbearing primarily as a process within marriage. The present dissertation project seeks to address this controversy by elucidating the linkage between the processes of cohabitation, marriage, and childbearing among contemporary young adults. In addition to fertility behavior, this project focuses on studying fertility intentions as a way of understanding individuals' plans, goals, and ideas about cohabitation. Drawing on lifecourse conceptual framework and data from 13-17th (2009-2015) interview rounds of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), this dissertation examines the role relationship status and, more specifically, cohabitation plays in the formation and realization of short-term fertility intentions. First, I use binary logistic regression models to investigate whether fertility decision-making in the context of cohabitation depends on how marriage fits into cohabitors' plans for the future. Simultaneously studying fertility- and marriage-related dynamics within the context of cohabitation allow gaining better insight into the existing variation in cohabitation with respect to its meaning, function, and place within individuals' lifecourse trajectory as well as contemporary U.S. family landscape. Second, I apply discrete-time survival analyses to explore the role of cohabitation on young adults' actual fertility behavior in a short run. I estimate how likely cohabitors are to realize their short-term intentions comparing to other relationship status groups; I also investigate whether the linkage between cohabitation and fertility varies by the degree of fertility intentions certainty. |
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Muraveva, Anna V. Understanding Variation in Cohabitation through a Lens of Marital Expectations and Fertility. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 2019. |