Composition and decomposition in nonmarital fertility

Lawrence L. Wu

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Composition and decomposition in nonmarital fertility

Lawrence L. Wu

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Ermisch (2009) criticized Gray, Stockard, and Stone (2006), arguing that they incorrectly tested a model positing a nonlinear relationship between the nonmarital fertility ratio and the proportion of unmarried women. I identify a different problem, which is that even if this model were to hold for a particular population, it would not in general hold for subgroups of this population; likewise, were it to hold for subgroups, it would not hold for aggregations of these subgroups.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	209-210
Number of pages	2
Journal	Demography
Volume	46
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0044
State	Published - 2009

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