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Title: Beyond Parental Incarceration: The Effects of Household Incarceration on the Risk of Premarital First Birth
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Gottlieb, Aaron |
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Beyond Parental Incarceration: The Effects of Household Incarceration on the Risk of Premarital First Birth Presented: San Francisco CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2014 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Family Structure; Heterogeneity; Household Influences; Incarceration/Jail Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Two of the most pronounced social trends in the United States over the last 40 years are the increase in childbearing outside of marriage and the increase in incarceration. Yet, no research has explored whether having a household member incarcerated during childhood influences a child's risk of having a premarital birth. Using data on the children of mothers interviewed in the NLSY79, I find that having a household member incarcerated between ages 10 to 14 increases a child's risk of growing up to have a premarital first birth by approximately 40% in both covariate adjustment and propensity score matching approaches. The findings also show that both the incarceration of immediate and extended family household members are important risk factors for having a premarital first birth. Taken together, these findings suggest that research exclusively emphasizing the consequences of parental incarceration has likely underestimated the consequences of the prison boom. One important way that household incarceration transmits disadvantage is by impacting family structure across generations. |
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Gottlieb, Aaron. "Beyond Parental Incarceration: The Effects of Household Incarceration on the Risk of Premarital First Birth." Presented: San Francisco CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2014. |