The objective of this project is to analyze the relationship between women's employment after the first birth and the transition to the second birth, conditional on future fertility expectations. The project is motivated by the search to understand the determinants of fertility in a low-fertility context. Women's labor force participation has been proposed as a primary factor influencing the number of births, but both individual and macro-level characteristics mediate the negative relationship between employment and fertility. This project tests hypotheses regarding the magnitude and direction of the effect of employment after the first birth on women's likelihood of having a second child. In addition, it explores variation in this relationship by race, marital status, and education level. The analysis uses event history methods to estimate the effects of covariates on the hazard of second birth, as well as statistical techniques to account for mutual causation between fertility, fertility intentions, and labor force participation.
| Guzzo, Karen Benjamin; Hayford, Sarah R (2010) Single Mothers, Single Fathers: Gender Differences in Fertility after a Nonmarital Birth. J Fam Issues 31:906-933 |
| Hayford, Sarah R (2009) The evolution of fertility expectations over the life course. Demography 46:765-83 |
| Hayford, Sarah R; Morgan, S Philip (2008) Religiosity and Fertility in the United States: The Role of Fertility Intentions. Soc Forces 86:1163-1188 |
| Hayford, Sarah R; Furstenberg, Frank F (2008) Delayed Adulthood, Delayed Desistance? Trends in the Age Distribution of Problem Behaviors. J Res Adolesc 18:285-304 |
| Hayford, Sarah R; Morgan, S Philip (2008) The quality of retrospective data on cohabitation. Demography 45:129-41 |
| Hayford, Sarah R (2005) Stable aggregate fertility in a time of family change: a decomposition of trends in American fertility, 1970-1999. Soc Biol 52:1-17 |
