Leveraging 2.5 years of weekly data from the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life Study,
we investigate the relationship between young women's sexual concurrency and their …

This paper examines the role of young women's relationship experiences on their
contraceptive behaviors. I use longitudinal data from a weekly mixed-mode (online or …

Understanding young women's contraceptive and pregnancy prevention behaviors is
important for helping women and their partners control if and when they have children. Prior …

We investigate the immediate social context of contraceptive behaviors: specifically, the
intimate relationship. We use the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) study …

OBJECTIVE We identify common patterns of joint relationship, sex, and contraceptive
trajectories in young adulthood and assess how selection into these trajectories differs …

By using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examine how
adolescent relationship characteristics, partner attributes, and sexual relationship histories …

We examined whether hormonal contraception (HC) use predicts sexual frequency
throughout and across young women's intimate relationships. From 2008–2012, the …

Past studies on the influence of sexual activity on contraceptive behaviours are inconclusive,
relying heavily on cross-sectional data. We used a population-based longitudinal sample of …

The average US woman wants to have two children; to do so, she will spend about three
years pregnant, postpartum, or trying to become pregnant, and three decades trying to avoid …

Non-heterosexual young women have a higher rate of unintended pregnancy than their
heterosexual peers, but their fertility behaviors are understudied. We use longitudinal data …