Mate Availability and the Transition to Unwed Motherhood: A Paradox of Population Structure  

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South, Scott J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 58 no. 02 (May 1996), page 265-279.
Topik: sex ratio; marriage; fertility; mate availibility; premarital childbearing

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: J43 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth are merged with 1980 census data and in formation on respondents' secondary school to examine the influence of mate availability on the timing of young women's first marriage and premarital childbearing. Event history models that treat first marriage (prior to first birth) and first birth (prior to first marriage) as competing risks reveal modest but statistically significant effects of mate availability on the timing of both lifecourse events. These effects work in opposite directions in influencing the likelihood that a young woman will become an unwed mother. For White women, an abundance of eligible males in the local marriage market increases the rate of exit from the single, childless state both by hastening entry into marriage and by increasing the risk of nonmarital childbearing. For Black women, the percentage of males in the local marriage pool who ere employed accelerates the transition marriage, while the percentage of males in the respondent's secondary school significantly elevates the risk of a premarital birth.

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