ArticleRace and social problems2015
Unpacking the "Black Box" of Race-Ethnic Variation in Fertility.
Article in Race and social problems, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Associations Among Sociodemographic and Contextual Factors and Youth Pregnancy Preferences.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2025Article
- Serum gonadal hormones levels and hypogonadism in ART naïve newly diagnosed HIV infected adult males in Mwanza, Tanzania.BMC endocrine disorders · 2024Article
- Group Normative Propensities, Societal Positioning, and Childbearing: Ethno‑linguistic Variation in Completed and Desired Fertility in Transitional Central Asia.Population research and policy review · 2022Article
- "Having a Child Meant I had a Real Life": Reproductive Coercion and Childbearing Motivations Among Young Black Men Living in Baltimore.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2021Article
- The effect of ethnicity on semen analysis and hormones in the infertile patient.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2020Article
- Pathways to Parenthood in Social and Family Context: Decade in Review, 2020.Journal of marriage and the family · 2020Article
- Born Without a Silver Spoon: Race, Wealth, and Unintended Childbearing.Journal of family and economic issues · 2018Article
- Racial and Ethnic Variation in the Relationship Between Student Loan Debt and the Transition to First Birth.Demography · 2018Article
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Abstract
Race-ethnic differences in a range of childbearing behaviors are long-standing and well-documented, and these differences are attenuated, but not eliminated, when accounting for socioeconomic disparities. The residual differences are often attributed to vague and untested variation across race-ethnic groups in knowledge, attitudes, psychological attributes, normative beliefs, and social context. We use the longitudinal Toledo Adolescent Relationship Study (TARS), which contains a rich set of such factors measured in early adolescence, to assess whether they contribute to race-ethnic differences in having a birth among men and women ages 17-24 (n=1,042). Specifically, we test whether individual attitudes, religiosity, and academic behaviors; knowledge and behaviors regarding sex and dating; peer normative context; and parental communication about sex account for variation in the risk of an early birth. We find that socioeconomic factors attenuate but do not reduce differences between Black, Hispanic, and White respondents. Including adolescent academic performance and early entry into sex reduces the Black-White difference in the odds of early fertility to nonsignificance; however, beyond socioeconomic status, none of the broad range of factors further attenuate Hispanic-White differences, which remain large and statistically significant.
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