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. 1978 Feb;15(1):75-86.

Age and marital status at first birth and the pace of subsequent fertility

L L Bumpass, R R Rindfuss, R B Janosik
  • PMID: 631400

Age and marital status at first birth and the pace of subsequent fertility

L L Bumpass et al. Demography. 1978 Feb.

Abstract

Taking care to minimize the truncation bias inherent in cross-sectional data and controlling for other variables, this paper demonstrates the strong effects of both age and marital status at first birth on the pace of subsequent fertility. These effects are particularly strong in the interval immediately following the first birth but persist even into the fourth interval. Important differences are found with respect to the experience of rapid fertility, rather than in the mean lengths of intervals. These results add to the growing attention to the social dimensions of age as a variable in fertility processes.

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