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Title: Where Should Babies Come From? Measuring Schemas of Fertility and Family Formation Using Novel Theory and Methods
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Rackin, Heather M. |
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Where Should Babies Come From? Measuring Schemas of Fertility and Family Formation Using Novel Theory and Methods Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Duke University, 2013 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Attitudes; Family Formation; Fertility; Wantedness Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this dissertation, I explore how and why pre- and post-reports of intentions may be different using insights from the Theory of Conjunctural Action. In the second chapter, using data from the NLSY79 and log-linear models, I show that there are considerable inconsistencies between prospective and retrospective reports of fertility intentions. Specifically, nearly 6% of births (346 out of 6022) are retrospectively reported as unwanted at the time of conception by women who prospectively reported they wanted more children one or two years prior to the birth. Similarly, over 400 births are retrospectively reported as wanted by women who intended to have no more births one or two years prior (i.e., in the prior survey wave). The innovation here is to see this inconsistency, not as an error in reporting, but as different construals of a seemingly similar question. In other words, women may not be consciously intending births and then enacting these intentions; rather women may have different schemas (or meanings) of prospective and retrospective measures of fertility intentions. |
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Rackin, Heather M. Where Should Babies Come From? Measuring Schemas of Fertility and Family Formation Using Novel Theory and Methods. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Duke University, 2013. |