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January 1985
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Social Science Quarterly
How four components of the fertility process--(1) the likelihood of being childless, (2) age at first birth, (3) length of birth intervals, and (4) age at termination of childbearing--contribute to the relationship among race, education, and fertility is examined. (Author/RM)
... Investigations on the fertility of highly educated black women are, however, limited by small sample sizes in representative surveys, as they are a small group in the US, likely explaining the scarcity of literature on this topic. Existing literature, based on cross sectional analyses, unanimously reports that average parity (Johnson 1979, Goldschneider and Uhlenberg 1969, John and Grasmick 1985, Clarke 2002 does not significantly differ between white and black college educated women, while black lower educated women have a higher average number of children than their white counterparts. Furthermore, John and Grasmick (1985) report younger ages at childbearing initiation among college educated black compared to white women, suggesting that black highly educated women have a somewhat different childbearing process than white women, reaching similar average parity after a younger initiation of childbearing, either via spacing their children further 5 apart or ending their childbearing process earlier. ...
January 1985
Social Science Quarterly
