Premarital conceptions, postconception ("shotgun") marriages, and premarital first births: Education gradients in U.S. cohorts of white and black women born 1925-1959

Demographic Research

Volumn 27, Issue , 2012, Pages 153-166

  England, Paula ^a   Shafer, Emily Fitzgibbons ^b   Wu, Lawrence L ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84865968506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2012.27.6     Document Type: Article

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