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...
Main Authors: | Paula England, Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer, Lawrence L. Wu |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2012-07-01
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Series: | Demographic Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol27/6/ |
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