The Influence of Cohabitation on Male and Female Fertility

Li Zhang ()
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Li Zhang: Virginia Commonwealth University, L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs

Chapter Chapter 8 in Male Fertility Patterns and Determinants, 2011, pp 143-176 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter focuses on exploring how cohabitation influences male and female fertility. When examining the cohabitation effect on fertility, I incorporate race and ethnicity into the analysis and investigate the fertility differentials by gender due to cohabitation across racial and ethnic groups. In addition, the chapter takes the interaction effects between cohabitation and socioeconomic factors, family-background covariates and the proximate determinants into consideration when exploring the cohabitation and fertility relationship. By examining data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) Cycle 6, the results show that cohabitation has a stronger positive effect on male than on female fertility through mediating with an individual’s family-background characteristics and the proximate determinants. In addition, non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics are found to share more similarities than differences as compared to blacks in the cohabitation and fertility relationship. The chapter discusses the mechanisms that may explain the fertility differentials by gender and across race and ethnicity due to cohabitation. It also highlights the implications drawn from this research.

Keywords: Female Fertility; Sexual Initiation; Strong Positive Effect; Proximate Determinant; Fertility Differential (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8939-7_8

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