TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hynes, Kathryn
A1  - DeLeone, Felicia
A1  - Joyner, Kara
A1  - Peters, H. Elizabeth
T1  - The transition to early fatherhood: National estimates based on multiple surveys
Y1  - 2008/04/29
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 337
EP  - 376
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2008.18.12
VL  - 18
IS  - 12
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol18/12/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol18/12/18-12.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol18/12/18-12.pdf
N2  - This study provides systematic information about the prevalence of early male fertility and the relationship between family background characteristics and early parenthood across three widely used data sources: the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth and the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth.  We provide descriptive statistics on early fertility by age, sex, race, cohort, and data set.  Because each data set includes birth cohorts with varying early fertility rates, prevalence estimates for early male fertility are relatively similar across data sets.  Associations between background characteristics and early fertility in regression models are less consistent across data sets.  We discuss the implications of these findings for scholars doing research on early male fertility.

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