Youth's Political Identity and Fertility Desires.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examines the association between political identity and young adults' fertility desires from 1989-2019.

Background

Understanding the factors that shape fertility preferences is important because these preferences are the critical bridge between social forces and fertility. Identity is a theorized, but understudied, predictor of fertility desires. The increasing salience of political identity suggests that the association between political identity and fertility desires has strengthened over time.

Method

Data come from the 1989-2019 waves of Monitoring the Future, a nationally representative study of 12^th graders (N = 67,557). Regression models examined how political identity (measured by Republican or Democrat preference) predict

SUBMITTER: Rackin HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12276878 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature