Cohort Trends in the Lifetime Distribution of Female Family Headship in the United States, 1968–1985 | Zendy

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Cohort Trends in the Lifetime Distribution of Female Family Headship in the United States, 1968–1985

Author(s) -

Robert Moffitt,

Michael S. Rendall

Publication year - 1995

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061688

Subject(s) - demography , cohort , duration (music) , hazard ratio , hazard , demographic economics , incidence (geometry) , geography , economics , statistics , sociology , mathematics , confidence interval , art , chemistry , geometry , literature , organic chemistry

We use the PSID Relationship File to estimate cohort trends in the lifetime incidence and duration of female family headship. Hazard (event-history) techniques are used to estimate movements into and out of headship, accounting for duration dependence and left-censored spells. The mean number of years spent in headship between ages 14 and 59 rose dramatically over the period. The increase arose from an increased number of headship spells, including an increase in the number of women ever experiencing headship, but not at all from an increase in durations of headship spells; those decreased slightly.

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