How do women appear on the pages of Demography? This is not a question of authorship,
of whether the articles published in Demography by women differ from those published by …

Status Enhancement and Fertility: Reproductive Responses to Social Mobility and
Educational Opportunity provides a theoretical framework in which research findings on the …

Discusses 2 major problems confronting those interested in understanding family planning
behavior: identification of those variables that determine intentions to engage in various …

A substantial part of our knowledge of American fertility is based on the results of a series of
national surveys. In this paper, I propose to examine some characteristics of those surveys …

Context: Retrospective studies of pregnancy intendedness have revealed some
characteristics that can help identify which women are more likely than others to experience …

Recent discussions of population policy have raised and sharpened the question of
unwanted fertility in the United States (1). The issue is whether the elimination of unwanted …

Children born after an unplanned pregnancy have poorer developmental scores. This could
arise from less favorable parenting but also could reflect confounding from the …

Criticisms are offered of the measures of family‐size desires and unwanted pregnancies
most often employed in US fertility surveys and KAP surveys. This paper offers a …

A number of checks can be done to assess reliability of attitudinal data pertaining to fertility.
We ascertain how births that would be considered unintended, based on Time 1 reports of …

PIP: Psychological research into the determinants of family size pertains to the motivations
connected with childbearing in general and to those relating to specific numbers of children …