The rising share of nonmarital births: is it only compositional effects?
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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 increased both the population at risk and the birth rate of unmarried women relative to that of marri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demography
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0070-3370,1533-7790
DOI: 10.1353/dem.0.0040