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Title: How Early Life Religious Exposure Relates to the Timing of First Birth
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1. Pearce, Lisa D.
Davis, Shannon N.
How Early Life Religious Exposure Relates to the Timing of First Birth
Journal of Marriage and Family 78,5 (October 2016): 1422-1438.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12364/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Age at First Marriage; Cohabitation; Family Size; First Birth; Religious Influences

This article examines intermediary processes explaining how religious socialization and involvement early in life are related to the timing of first births for women in the United States. The theory of conjunctural action forms the basis for hypotheses for how religious schemas and materials operate to influence birth timing. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data and event history methods, the study finds evidence for expected family size, work-family gender ideology, educational attainment and enrollment, cohabitation, and age at marriage as mediators of associations between early life religious exposure (affiliation and attendance) and the timing of nonmaritally and maritally conceived first births. These findings corroborate other research identifying the long reach of religious socialization and involvement in youth, elucidate some of the pathways for these connections, and motivate further work to understand linkages between religion and family behaviors in the United States.
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Pearce, Lisa D. and Shannon N. Davis. "How Early Life Religious Exposure Relates to the Timing of First Birth." Journal of Marriage and Family 78,5 (October 2016): 1422-1438.