Stockard, Jean; Gray, Jo Anna; O'Brien, Robert; Stone, Joe - Department of Economics, University of Oregon - 2007
The authors employ a newly developed method to disentangle age, period and cohort effects on nonmarital fertility ratios (NFR) from 1972 to 2002 for U.S. women aged 20-44 – with a focus on three specific cohort factors: family structure, school enrollment, and the ratio of men to women. All...