Do differences in expectations and preferences explain racial/ethnic variation in family formation outcomes?

摘要: Abstract Racial/ethnic differences in family formation are well-documented and scholars have often pointed to both structural ideational factors explain them. Yet, investigations into the role that play been sparse limited numerous ways. Using NLSY79 data, this study investigates whether variations expectations preferences racial/ethnic outcomes for occurrence, timing, sequencing of first marriage birth. Significant outcomes, expectations, found across race/ethnicity. Expectations as much 17% behavior, although typically they 10%, case nonmarital childbearing, less than 3% variation. The predictive power is result statistically significant yet substantively small substantial incongruence between especially Blacks Hispanics.