Premarital conceptions, postconception ("shotgun") marriages, and premarital first births: Education gradients in U.S. cohorts of white and black women born 1925-1959

Premarital conceptions, postconception ("shotgun") marriages, and premarital first births: Education gradients in U.S. cohorts of white and black women born 1925-1959

BACKGROUND In the U.S. today, premarital first births occur disproportionately to women with low education and income. We lack studies of whether this education gradient was present in cohorts born earlier. OBJECTIVE We examine education differences in the proportion of U.S. white and black women wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Paula England, Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer, Lawrence L. Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2012-07-01
Series:Demographic Research
Subjects:
education
nonmarital fertility
premarital fertility
social class
Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol27/6/

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http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol27/6/

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