ArticleJournal of marriage and the family2024
Youth's Political Identity and Fertility Desires.
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- Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Partisan Divergence in Fertility Change Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Florida.Population research and policy review · 2025Article
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Objective: This study examines the association between political identity and young adults' fertility desires from 1989-2019. Background: Understanding the factors that shape fertility preferences is important because these preferences are the critical bridge between social forces and fertility. Identity is a theorized, but understudied, predictor of fertility desires. The increasing salience of political identity suggests that the association between political identity and fertility desires has strengthened over time. Method: Data come from the 1989-2019 waves of Monitoring the Future, a nationally representative study of 12 Results: Regardless of the period, Republicans desired more children than Democrats-a difference that grew over time, from 0.07 in 1989-1993 to 0.29 in 2014-2019. Differences in religiosity and attitudes toward gender and childbearing explained pre-2004 partisan gaps. From 2004 and onward, these factors attenuated, but did not fully explain, Republican-Democrat gaps. In later periods, relative to Democrats, Republicans still wanted more children on average, had a higher probability of wanting four or more children in 2004-2013 and a lower probability of eschewing parenthood in 2014-2019. Conclusion: Political identity has become increasingly salient for fertility desires, suggesting that identity might shape fertility intentions and future fertility behavior.
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