ArticleJournal of marriage and the family2016
How Early Life Religious Exposure Relates to the Timing of First Birth.
Article in Journal of marriage and the family, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Investigating the causal effects of religiosity on childbearing among U.S. adolescents using a three-wave longitudinal design.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Adolescent reproductive attitudes and knowledge effects on early adult unintended and nonmarital fertility across gender.Advances in life course research · 2021Article
- On the Incongruence between Psychometric and Psychosocial-Biodemographic Measures of Life History.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Pathways to Parenthood in Social and Family Context: Decade in Review, 2020.Journal of marriage and the family · 2020Article
- The Gendered Relationship between Parental Religiousness and Children's Marriage Timing.Sociology of religion · 2020Article
- Adolescent Fertility Attitudes and Childbearing in Early Adulthood.Population research and policy review · 2019Article
- Men's Preconception Health and Fertility Intentions: A Latent Class Analysis Approach.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
This paper examines intermediary processes explaining how religious socialization and involvement early in life are related to the timing of first births for women in the United States. The theory of conjunctural action forms the basis for hypotheses for how religious schema and materials operate to influence birth timing. Using the NLSY79 data and event history methods, the study finds evidence for expected family size, work-family gender ideology, educational attainment and enrollment, cohabitation, and age at marriage as mediators of associations between early life religious exposure (affiliation and attendance) and the timing of nonmaritally and maritally conceived first births. These findings corroborate other research identifying the long reach of religious socialization and involvement in youth, elucidate some of the pathways for these connections, and motivate further work to understand linkages between religion and family behaviors in the United States.
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