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Anna Rybińska - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Research Note on the Convergence of Childlessness Rates Between Women with Secondary and Tertiary Education in the United States
European Journal of Population, 2020Co-Authors: Anna RybińskaAbstract:A gap in Childlessness rates between women with and without tertiary education in low-fertility settings has been well documented by scholars. However, in the United States, high rates of Childlessness are declining for women with tertiary education. Will this current trend lead to a closing of the gap in Childlessness across educational subgroups in this country? We answer this question using data from the Current Population Survey from 1976 through 2018. We present population-level trends in permanent Childlessness by level of education and estimate the differences in the prevalence of Childlessness across educational subgroups. Our findings indicate that the rates of Childlessness for women aged 40–44 with tertiary education in the United States are the lowest they have been in over three decades and that rates of Childlessness are converging among women with secondary and tertiary education. The declines in Childlessness rates and the convergence in Childlessness rates between women with secondary and tertiary education are observed for all of the three largest race/ethnicity sub-populations of American women: non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Hispanic women. This report contributes to the emerging literature on the convergence of Childlessness rates across sub-populations of women with different levels of educational attainment, which questions the well-established observation that there is a positive relationship between education and Childlessness.
Kryaitof Zeman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the limited effect of increasing educational attainment on Childlessness trends in twentieth century europe women born 1916 65
Population Studies-a Journal of Demography, 2016Co-Authors: Eva Beaujouan, Zuzanna Brzozowska, Kryaitof ZemanAbstract:During the twentieth century, trends in Childlessness varied strongly across European countries while educational attainment grew continuously across them. Using census and large-scale survey data from 13 European countries, we investigated the relationship between these two factors among women born between 1916 and 1965. Up to the 1940 birth cohort, the share of women childless at age 40+ decreased universally. Afterwards, the trends diverged across countries. The results suggest that the overall trends were related mainly to changing rates of Childlessness within educational groups and only marginally to changes in the educational composition of the population. Over time, Childlessness levels of the medium-educated and high-educated became closer to those of the low-educated, but the difference in level between the two better educated groups remained stable in Western and Southern Europe and increased slightly in the East.
Sarah R Hayford - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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marriage still matters the contribution of demographic change to trends in Childlessness in the united states
Demography, 2013Co-Authors: Sarah R HayfordAbstract:Childlessness in the United States nearly doubled between 1980 and 2000. Other dramatic changes in the U.S. population also took place over this period—notably, women’s average educational attainment increased, and the proportion marrying declined—but the impact of these changes on Childlessness has not been formally examined. In this article, I use data from the Current Population Survey Fertility Supplements (1995, 1998, 2004, 2008) and logistic regression and regression-based decomposition techniques to assess the contribution of changes in educational attainment, marriage behavior, and racial/ethnic composition on population levels of Childlessness in the United States. Results show that increases in the proportion of women unmarried by age 40 contributed most to the increase in Childlessness in the late twentieth century, although these increases were offset somewhat by increased childbearing among unmarried women. The rising proportion of women with a college degree also explained a substantial amount of the increase in childless women.
Eva Beaujouan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the limited effect of increasing educational attainment on Childlessness trends in twentieth century europe women born 1916 65
Population Studies-a Journal of Demography, 2016Co-Authors: Eva Beaujouan, Zuzanna Brzozowska, Kryaitof ZemanAbstract:During the twentieth century, trends in Childlessness varied strongly across European countries while educational attainment grew continuously across them. Using census and large-scale survey data from 13 European countries, we investigated the relationship between these two factors among women born between 1916 and 1965. Up to the 1940 birth cohort, the share of women childless at age 40+ decreased universally. Afterwards, the trends diverged across countries. The results suggest that the overall trends were related mainly to changing rates of Childlessness within educational groups and only marginally to changes in the educational composition of the population. Over time, Childlessness levels of the medium-educated and high-educated became closer to those of the low-educated, but the difference in level between the two better educated groups remained stable in Western and Southern Europe and increased slightly in the East.
S P Morgan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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late nineteenth and early twentieth century Childlessness
American Journal of Sociology, 1991Co-Authors: S P MorganAbstract:In some northeastern states, levels of Childlessness approached 30% for women born in the mid-19th century. Other states in the South and West had levels of 6%-8%. Nationally, Childlessness increased across cohorts born in the latter part of the 19th century. Nonmarriage and delayed marriage account for some of this variability. But the argument here is that fertility control within marriage played a major role in producing these differentials. Both the intercohort and cross-sectional differentials in Childlessness match differentials in higher parity births, suggesting that fertility control was practiced most in the times and places where Childlessness was gratest. Furthermore, "own-children" methods are used to present evidence of fertility control among childless women early in marriage. The argument is not that young women born in the mid-19th century intended to be childless at young ages; it is instead that they were willing and able to postpone childbearing. With fertility delay came experience an...