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Title: Fertility Responses to Individual and Contextual Unemployment: Differences by Socioeconomic Background
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Yu, Wei-hsin Sun, Shengwei |
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Fertility Responses to Individual and Contextual Unemployment: Differences by Socioeconomic Background Demographic Research 39 (25 October 2018): 927-962. Also: https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol39/35/default.htm Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Keyword(s): Childbearing; Educational Attainment; Fertility; Geocoded Data; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Unemployment; Unemployment Rate, Regional Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Objective: In this study we specifically ask whether fertility timings in the United States are more sensitive to the unemployment rates of individuals' immediate surroundings or to their own unemployment. Moreover, we investigate whether young adults with different educational levels and parental resources may adjust their childbearing timing differently in response to their own employment status and local unemployment rates. Methods: Using 17 rounds of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, we fit discrete-time event history models predicting men's and women's pace of childbearing. Results: The analysis indicates that relatively disadvantaged young adults, such as those with low education or parents with low education, tend to delay childbirth in response to high local unemployment rates but are less likely than the more advantaged to defer childbearing when facing their own unemployment. |
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Yu, Wei-hsin and Shengwei Sun. "Fertility Responses to Individual and Contextual Unemployment: Differences by Socioeconomic Background." Demographic Research 39 (25 October 2018): 927-962.
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