Session 68: Social and Economic Forces and the Transition to Motherhood

Friday, May 2 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM Carver 2nd Floor

1.	Distribution of the Age at First Birth among US Women 1984-1993: An Analysis of a Bimodal Pattern  •   Rachel Sullivan, University of California, Berkeley

2.	Do College-Educated Women Reduce Their Motherhood Wage Penalty by Delaying Childbearing?  •   Catalina Amuedo Dorantes, San Diego State University; Jean Kimmel, Western Michigan University

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Entry to Motherhood and Higher Education in Three Regimes of Welfare Capitalism  •   Michael Rendall, University of London; Encarnacion Aracil, Universidad Complutense; Christos Bagavos, University of Athens; Alessandra DeRose, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"; A Dharmalingam, University of Waikato; Heather Joshi, University of London; Lisbeth B. Knudsen, Aalborg University; Philip Merrigan, Université du Québec à Montréal; Lene Meyer, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE); Ian Pool, University of Waikato; Filomena Racioppi, Università di Roma; Janet Sceats, Portal Consulting and Associates Ltd.; Georgia Verropoulou, University of Thrace

4.	On the Changing Relationship between Fertility and Female Employment over Space and Time  •   Henriette Engelhardt, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Alexia Fuernkranz-Prskawetz, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

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