Does Fertility Behavior Spread among Friends?

被引:85
作者
Balbo, Nicoletta [1 ]
Barban, Nicola [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Bocconi Univ, Dondena Ctr Res Social Dynam, I-20136 Milan, Italy
[2] Univ Groningen, Dept Sociol, NL-9700 AB Groningen, Netherlands
[3] Univ Groningen, Interuniv Ctr Social Sci Theory & Methodol ICS, NL-9700 AB Groningen, Netherlands
关键词
fertility; transition to parenthood; Add Health; social interactions; peer effect; SOCIAL NETWORKS; FAMILY; IDENTIFICATION; PARENTHOOD; DECISIONS; SELECTION; SIBLINGS; MOTHERS; OBESITY; ENTRY;
D O I
10.1177/0003122414531596
中图分类号
C91 [社会学];
学科分类号
030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
By integrating insights from economic and sociological theories, this article investigates whether and through which mechanisms friends' fertility behavior affects an individual's transition to parenthood. By exploiting the survey design of the Add Health data, our strategy allows us to properly identify interaction effects and distinguish them from selection and contextual effects. We use a series of discrete-time event history models with random effects at the dyadic level. Results show that, net of confounding effects, a friend's childbearing increases an individual's risk of becoming a parent. We find a short-term, curvilinear effect: an individual's risk of childbearing starts increasing after a friend's childbearing, reaches its peak approximately two years later, and then decreases.
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页码:412 / 431
页数:20
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