title: An Assessment Of The Impact Of Economic Factors On Planned Fertility In New York City, 1970.
abstract: The economic theory of fertility predicts that fertility will be positively related to financial resources and negatively related to child costs. This theory is shown to be, in essence, a motivational theory, and as such relevant to predicting planned fertility but not necessarily unplanned childbearing. It is also expected that neither the probability of planned parenthood nor the influence of economic factors will be constant across all age groups of potential mothers. An empirical test of these relationships is presented using the age-specific fertility rates of 338 New York City areas. The relationships of three sets of social indicators representing the hypothetically relevant factors are determined. The importance of these factors is assessed by means of their multiple and multiple partial correlations.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gaughran