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Title: An Empirical Study of the Timing and Spacing of Childbearing
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1. Falaris, Evangelos M.
An Empirical Study of the Timing and Spacing of Childbearing
Southern Economic Journal 54,2 (October 1987): 287-300.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1059314
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: Southern Economic Association
Keyword(s): Births, Repeat / Spacing; Childbearing; Earnings; Employment; First Birth

Data from the Young Women's cohort of the NLS are used to study the role of economic forces on the timing and spacing of births. An empirical model of the timing and spacing of childbearing is estimated and evidence is presented that economic factors significantly influence these aspects of fertility. The main results with respect to economic explanatory variables are that an upward shift in a woman's wage profile results in a tendency to postpone childbearing and an opposing tendency for closer spacing. An upward shift in her husband's earnings profile results in earlier timing of births.
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Falaris, Evangelos M. "An Empirical Study of the Timing and Spacing of Childbearing." Southern Economic Journal 54,2 (October 1987): 287-300.