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The Rising Share of Nonmarital Births: Is It only Compositional Effects?

A recent article by Gray, Stockard, and Stone contended that the increase in the proportion of births to unmarried women since 1974 in the United States was not caused by any major change in underlying fertility behavior, but rather by a decrease in the proportion of women who are married, which inc...

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Published in:Demography Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 193 - 203
Main Author: Ermisch, John
Format: Article
Published: Springer Science & Business Media B.V. February 2009
Subjects:
Children of unmarried parents
Fertility, Human
Mathematical models
History
Single women
United States
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost