England, Paula; Wu, Lawrence; Shafer, Emily - In: Demography 50 (2013) 6, pp. 2075-2104
We examine cohort trends in premarital first births for U.S. women born between 1920 and 1964. The rise in premarital first births is often argued to be a consequence of the retreat from marriage, with later ages at first marriage resulting in more years of exposure to the risk of a premarital...
