Session 61:
Religion and Family Formation in the United States
Chair: W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia
Discussant: Evelyn Lehrer, University of Illinois at Chicago
Religion, Religiosity, and the Decline of Marital Fertility in the United States, 1850-1930 J. David Hacker, Binghamton University, State University of New York (SUNY)
Do Congregations Influence Fertility? Conrad Hackett, Princeton University
Religiosity and Fertility Differences in the Contemporary U.S.: Evidence from the 2002 NSFG Sarah R. Hayford, Duke University ; S. Philip Morgan, Duke University
Be Fruitful and Multiply: Changing Family Formation Behavior and the Role of Religion, Religiosity and Ethnicity Petra Nahmias, Princeton University
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