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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. Author's affiliation
Kathryn Hynes
Pennsylvania State University, United States
Kara Joyner
Bowling Green State University, United States
H. Elizabeth Peters
Cornell University, United States
Felicia DeLeone
University of North Carolina, United States Keywords
data quality, fathers, fertility, life course, teen childbearing Word count (Main text)
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