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Source: Population and Environment
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Maxwell, Nan L.
Mott, Frank L.
Trends in the Determinants of Early Childbearing
Population and Environment 9,2 (Summer 1987): 59-73.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27503065
Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women
Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation
Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing; Contraception; Fertility; First Birth; Mothers, Race; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Status (SES)

This study uses data from the Young Women and NLSY cohorts to examine the extent to which socioeconomic background factors and race have changed in their ability to predict a first birth before age 19 between 1968 and 1980 for women aged 19 to 23. The authors find little support for their hypothesis that the increasing availability of contraception and abortion for young women from all social classes reduces the traditionally strong inverse association between social class and early childbearing. There is evidence that, even after controlling for changes in socioeconomic background factors, black young women are significantly more likely than their white counterparts to bear children before age 19 in 1980 and the relative gap between races in this regard did not alter perceptibly during that period.
Bibliography Citation
Maxwell, Nan L. and Frank L. Mott. "Trends in the Determinants of Early Childbearing." Population and Environment 9,2 (Summer 1987): 59-73.
2. Moore, Kristin Anderson
Hofferth, Sandra L.
Factors Affecting Early Family Formation: A Path Model
Population and Environment 3,1 (Spring 1980): 73-98
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation
Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Childbearing; Educational Attainment; Family Structure; First Birth; Marriage; Parental Influences

This study uses a path model to examine the factors that determine age at initiation of childbearing. Family orientation was found to have a significant effect on the age at which a woman begins a family. Age at first marriage, educational attainment, and age at family formation are strongly interdependent; however, the process seems to vary by race.
Bibliography Citation
Moore, Kristin Anderson and Sandra L. Hofferth. "Factors Affecting Early Family Formation: A Path Model." Population and Environment 3,1 (Spring 1980): 73-98.