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Title: Cohort and Generation Differences in Predictors of Early Fertility and Sex Among U.S. Immigrants: Evidence from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Surveys Of Youth
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Deleone, Felicia Yang |
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Cohort and Generation Differences in Predictors of Early Fertility and Sex Among U.S. Immigrants: Evidence from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Surveys Of Youth Presented: Washington, DC, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Fall Research Conference, November 8-10, 2007. Also: http://www.appam.org/conferences/fall/search_results.asp Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Adolescent Fertility; Age at First Intercourse; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Gender Differences; Immigrants; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Modeling; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Risk-Taking; Sexual Behavior; Unemployment Rate Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study examines predictors of early fertility and sex among first and second generation adolescent immigrants in the United States using data from the 1997 and 1979 National Longitudinal Studies of Youth (NLSY97, NLSY79). Using discrete time logistic survival models, the influence of demographic, socioeconomic, and policy factors on immigrant adolescent fertility (as measured by early births) and risk behavior (as measured by age at first sex) is estimated. Particular attention is given to the role of immigrant-specific factors such as citizenship and immigration status, length of residence in the United States, language background, and, notably, public policy/contextual variables explicit to immigrants. For example, the analysis includes such variables as the poverty and unemployment rates in the geographic region in which a respondent resides as well as the percent immigrant and proportion of families using public assistance in the area. Other variables, such as child support enforcement policies and the welfare generosity of states to immigrants after the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, are considered as well. The analysis focuses on both the role of these factors in predicting sexual behavior and fertility among immigrants as well as the interaction between immigrant-specific characteristics and the demographic, socioeconomic, and policy factors commonly expected to influence adolescents in general. Differences in outcomes between male and female immigrants and across generations of immigrant adolescents are explored as well. By using two similar data sets collected two decades apart, differences both within and across cohorts of immigrant adolescents are explored. This research extends the literatures on immigrant adaptation and early fertility and is important as very little work has directly examined the effect of public policy and contextual factors on sex and childbearing among adolescent immigrants to the United States. Further, the research that exists has rarely considered cohort effects and has largely relied on single datasets. As immigrants and early and non-marital childbearing continue to be topics of great interest in the policymaking community, a study of this nature is particularly timely and relevant, not in the least because early fertility rates among some immigrant groups are especially high. The growing size and prominence of the immigrant population in the United States also contributes to the salience of this research. |
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Deleone, Felicia Yang. "Cohort and Generation Differences in Predictors of Early Fertility and Sex Among U.S. Immigrants: Evidence from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Surveys Of Youth." Presented: Washington, DC, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Fall Research Conference, November 8-10, 2007. |