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Title: Oral Contraception and the Likelihood of First Marriage in the United States

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Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: This paper analyzes the effects of oral contraception on the probability that an individual woman will marry given her age group, geographic region and other controls. The analysis is based on a model that uses a 1 percent sample of the 1970 and 1980 Census of the Population, and it extends the literature on the age of first marriage of women. The study is based on the diffusion of easily accessible oral contraceptives in the 1970’s having a full impact on behavior by 1980. Evidence indicates that for almost all age groups (except women 40-45 years old), the percentage of women married in the 1970’s is larger than the percentage in the 1980’s. The percentage difference between women married in each year starts out small in the young age categories, swells for women in their mid twenties, and then converges again for the older age categories. This convergence in the later age groups shows that for this data set, some women put off being married, but the number of women ever married at least once is the same.

Url: https://www.holycross.edu/sites/default/files/files/econacct/portillo.pdf

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Authors: Portillo, Raul

Publisher: college of the holy cross

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Topics: Family and Marriage

Countries: United States