Kim, Yujin; Raley, R. - In: Population Research and Policy Review 34 (2015) 1, pp. 141-159
Research in the 1980s pointed to the lower marriage rates of blacks as an important factor contributing to race …) versus rates (pregnancy rates, post-conception marriage rates) to race-ethnic variation in non-marital fertility rates (N = 7 …,428). We find that the pregnancy rate among single (not cohabiting) women is the biggest contributor to race-ethnic variation …