Educational gradients in the prevalence of medically assisted reproduction births in a comparative perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study educational gradients in births after medically assisted reproduction across 5 countries with different institutional arrangements.

Design

We use logistic regression and compute predicted probabilities to estimate the association between education and giving birth after assisted reproduction, before and after adjustment for maternal age at delivery and marital/partnership status, using an overall sample of about 3.9 million live births in 5 countries.

Settings

Not applicable.

Patients

This study includes survey or register data containing information on births in 5 countries: N = 61,564 for Denmark, N = 37,533 for France, N = 12,889 for Spain, N = 17,097 for the United Kingdom, and N = 3,700,442 for the United States.

Intervention (for rct

SUBMITTER: Goisis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11452323 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature