Fertility Intentions During the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Individual- and Municipality-Level Determinants.

ABSTRACT: Recognizing the prolonged, uneven, and evolving nature of the Covid-19 pandemic, this study provides one of the first dynamic, multilevel perspectives of women's fertility intentions in response to the pandemic and its multifaceted impacts. We examine how evolving individual- and community-level Covid-19 risk mechanisms and socioeconomic and life-course conditions are associated with continuity and change in women's fertility intentions. We combine individual-level panel data from a population-based sample of women aged 18-34 in Pernambuco, Brazil in 2020 and 2021 with corresponding administrative data from 94 municipalities. We use multinomial logit regressions to model continuity and change in fertility intentions across waves. We then estimate fixed effect models to highlight the time-v

SUBMITTER: Marteleto LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11323109 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature