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File Troff document (with manpage macros)Addressing Abortion Underreporting in Surveys with the List Experiment: Lifetime and Five-Year Abortion Incidence with Multivariate Estimation of Socio-demographic and Health Associations in two U.S. States
Heide M Jackson, Michael S Rendall, University of Maryland - 2022-001
Located in Research / Working Papers / WP Documents
Rendall comments on Baltimore population erosion
Current Census estimates place its population at a 100-year low
Located in News
Reproductive readiness predicts a woman’s non-use of contraception in the postpartum months in U.S.
Michael S. Rendall and Monica L. Caudillo examine reproductive readiness in U.S. Women’s Postpartum Non-Use of Contraception
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Article Reference Troff document (with manpage macros)Intentionally or Ambivalently Risking a Short Interpregnancy Interval: Reproductive-Readiness Factors in Women’s Postpartum Non-Use of Contraception
A focus of research on short interpregnancy intervals (IPI) has been on young disadvantaged women whose births are likely to be unintended. Later initiation of family formation in the United States and other high-income countries points to the need to also consider a woman’s attributes indicative of readiness for purposefully accelerated family formation achieved through short IPIs. We test for whether factors indicating “reproductive readiness”—including being married, being older, and having just had a first birth or a birth later than desired—predict a woman’s non-use of contraception in the postpartum months. We also test for whether this contraceptive non-use results explicitly from wanting to become pregnant again. The data come from the 2012–2015 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, representing women who recently gave birth in any of 35 U.S. states and New York City ( N  = 120,111). We find that these reproductive-readiness factors are highly predictive of women’s postpartum non-use of contraception because of a stated desire to become pregnant and are moderately predictive of contraceptive non-use without an explicit pregnancy intention. We conclude that planning for, or ambivalently risking, a short IPI is a frequent family-formation strategy for women whose family formation has been delayed. This is likely to become increasingly common as family formation in the United States is initiated later in the reproductive life course.
Located in MPRC People / Monica Caudillo, Ph.D. / Monica Caudillo Publications
File Troff document (with manpage macros)Why are so many American children born into poverty? Differences in Hispanic and Black new mothers’ sources of disadvantage
Michael S. Rendall, University of Maryland; Margaret M. Weden, RAND Corp.; Joey Brown, Polina Zvavitch, University of Maryland; 2018-002
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Cancelled: School of Public Policy - Forum with Michael Rendall
CISSM Global Forum - A Simulation Model of Partnership Formation and Fertility for Comparative International Research
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FileInterracial and Inter-ethnic Marriage and Cohabitation and Self-Rated Health
Lucia C. Lykke, U.S. Census Bureau; Michael S. Rendall, University of Maryland; 2017-009
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File Troff document (with manpage macros)Racial Disparities in Residential Mobility and Long-term Population Displacement from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Michael S. Rendall, University of Maryland; Narayan Sastry, RAND Corp., and Lori Reeder, University of Maryland; 2017-001
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File Troff document (with manpage macros)Women’s Sequencing of First Births Relative to First Substantial Employment Before and After the 1990’s Welfare Reforms
Michael S. Rendall, University of Maryland and Rachel Shattuck, U.S. Census Bureau; 2016-002
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File Troff document (with manpage macros)Retrospective Reporting of First Employment in the Life Courses of U.S. Women
Michael S. Rendall and Rachel Shattuck, University of Maryland; 2015-015
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