Entry:

Yang, Philip Q., "The Differential Effects of Husbands' and Wives' Statuses on Marital Fertility," Population and Environment, 15 (September, 1993), 43-58.


Abstract:

Women with more education are less fertile than women with less education are, but men with higher education are more fertile than those with less are.

GSS Years:

1972-1990

Other Data Sets:

Value of Children Survey; Census 1980

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
AGE

AGE OF RESPONDENT

SEX

RESPONDENTS SEX

RES16

TYPE OF PLACE LIVED IN WHEN 16 YRS OLD

RELIG

RS RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE

RACE

RACE OF RESPONDENT

INCOME

TOTAL FAMILY INCOME

AGEWED

AGE WHEN FIRST MARRIED

CHILDS

NUMBER OF CHILDREN

EDUC

HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED

SPEDUC

"HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED

SPPRES

SPOUSES OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1970)

PRESTIGE

RS OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1970)

WRKSTAT

LABOR FRCE STATUS

MARITAL

MARITAL STATUS

DIVORCE

EVER BEEN DIVORCED OR SEPARATED

SPWRKSTA

SPOUSE LABOR FORCE STATUS

SIBS

NUMBER OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS