Composition and decomposition in nonmarital fertility.
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.
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Lawrence L
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Department of Sociology, New York University, Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10012-9605, USA. lawrence.wu@nyu.edu
D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D006801:Humans; D007086:Illegitimacy; D017533:Marital Status / Q000208:ethnology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011247:Pregnancy; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult