abstract: 'In the United States, the 1990s was a decade of dramatic economic growth

  as well as a period characterized by substantial declines in teenage

  childbearing. This study examines whether falling teen fertility rates

  during the 1990s were responsive to expanding employment opportunities

  and whether the implementation of the Personal Responsibility and Work

  Opportunities Act (PRWORA), increasing rates of incarceration, or

  restrictive abortion policies may have affected this association.

  Fixed-effects Poisson regression models were estimated to assess the

  relationship between age-specific birth rates and state-specific

  unemployment rates from 1990 to 1999 for Black and White females aged

  10-29. Falling unemployment rates in the 1990s were associated with

  decreased childbearing among African-American women aged 15-24, but were

  largely unrelated to declines in fertility for Whites. For 18-19

  year-old African-Americans, the group for whom teen childbearing is most

  normative, our model accounted for 85\% of the decrease in rates of

  first births. Young Black women, especially older teens, may have

  adjusted their reproductive behavior to take advantage of expanded labor

  market opportunities. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Colen, CG (Corresponding Author), Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027
  USA.

  Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA.

  Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA.

  Brown Univ, Providence, RI 02912 USA.'
author: Colen, Cynthia G. and Geronimus, Arline T. and Phipps, Maureen G.
author-email: 'cc2557@columbia.edu

  arline@umich.edu

  Maureen\_Phipps@Brown.edu'
author_list:
- family: Colen
  given: Cynthia G.
- family: Geronimus
  given: Arline T.
- family: Phipps
  given: Maureen G.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.04.006
files: []
issn: 0277-9536
journal: SOCIAL SCIENCE \& MEDICINE
keywords: 'United States; teenage childbearing; fertility timing; race; social

  mobility; poverty'
keywords-plus: 'ADOLESCENT SEXUAL-BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL AGE; RACIAL-INEQUALITY; BUSINESS

  CYCLES; LIFE EXPECTANCY; BLOOD-PRESSURE; ACTIVE LIFE; FERTILITY;

  CHILDBEARING; MOTHERS'
language: English
month: SEP
number: '6'
number-of-cited-references: '76'
orcid-numbers: Colen, Cynthia/0000-0001-6926-2541
pages: 1531-1545
papis_id: 2071fcba69a78fb1aa47cba6ba3b5c1a
ref: Colen2006gettingpiece
researcherid-numbers: 'Colen, Cynthia Gene/K-6969-2012

  '
times-cited: '33'
title: Getting a piece of the pie? The economic boom of the 1990s and declining teen
  birth rates in the United States
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000239875800010
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '6'
volume: '63'
web-of-science-categories: 'Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health; Social Sciences,

  Biomedical'
year: '2006'