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Title: Obesity and Union Status at First Birth Among Women
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Fee, Holly R. |
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Obesity and Union Status at First Birth Among Women Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): First Birth; Marital Status; Obesity Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. For adolescents aged 12 to 19, the prevalence rate of obesity has more than tripled since 1980 (Fryar, Carroll, and Ogden 2012); and for adults aged 20 and older, the percentage who are obese has more than doubled in that same time period (Fryar, Carroll, and Ogden 2012). Individuals of childbearing age are now more likely to be obese than their predecessors and this trend is likely to redefine family formation behaviors. This study examines how obesity is associated with union status at first birth using national, longitudinal data from the 1997-2011 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97). Discrete-time logistic regression models reveal when obese women experience a first birth they are more likely to do so in a nonmarital union than marital union compared to normal weight women. |
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Fee, Holly R. "Obesity and Union Status at First Birth Among Women." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016. |