title: Cohort trends in the lifetime distribution of female family headship in the United States, 1968-1985.
abstract: 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 all from an increase in durations of headship spells; those decreased slightly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics and Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, USA.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Moffitt
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Rendall
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008423:Maternal Age; D008875:Middle Aged; D009035:Mothers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D044469:Racial Groups; D015406:Single Parent / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States