ArticlePopulation studies2017
Determined to stop? Longitudinal analysis of the desire to have no more children in rural Mozambique.
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- Women's desire to limit childbearing and associated factors in Tanzania: evidence from the 2022 demographic and health survey.Reproductive health · 2026Article
- Women's desire to limit child-bearing and its associated factors in rural Ethiopia: A multilevel analysis.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Investigating the relationship between growing season quality and childbearing goals.Global environmental change : human and policy dimensions · 2023Article
- "I know my body and I just can't get pregnant that easily" - Women's use and non-use of the injection to manage fertility.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2022Article
- The illusion of stable fertility preferences.Population studies · 2022Article
- Pathways to Low Fertility: 50 Years of Limitation, Curtailment, and Postponement of Childbearing.Demography · 2020Article
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- Conceptualizing Childbearing Ambivalence: A Social and Dynamic Perspective.Journal of marriage and the family · 2018Article
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Abstract
Classic demographic theories conceptualize desired family size as a fixed goal that guides fertility intentions over the childbearing years. However, a growing body of research shows that fertility plans, even nominally long-term plans for completed childbearing, change in response to short-term conditions. Because of data limitations, much of this research has focused on low-fertility contexts, but short-term conditions are likely to be even more important in high-fertility contexts. This paper uses three waves of survey data collected in rural Mozambique to study predictors of the desire to stop childbearing in a context of relatively high fertility and high individual and social instability. We use fixed effects models to assess how women's desires to stop childbearing are shaped by demographic factors, household economic conditions, and health status, controlling for constant individual characteristics. Results provide evidence that fertility desires both reflect stable underlying goals and evolve in response to individual and social circumstances.
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