Table 2. Average marginal effects (AMEs) from logistic regression predicting unrealized fertility among childless men and women.
| Men | Women | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 1 | Model 2 | ||||||||
| AMEs | p-value | AMEs | p-value | AMEs | p-value | AMEs | p-value | ||||
| Ever experienced infertility | |||||||||||
| No (Ref.) | |||||||||||
| Yes | 0.159 | *** | 0.166 | *** | 0.247 | *** | 0.260 | *** | |||
| Age at first union | |||||||||||
| 25 or less (Ref.) | |||||||||||
| 26–30 | 0.045 | 0.077 | |||||||||
| 31–35 | –0.004 | 0.092 | |||||||||
| Above 35 | 0.046 | 0.168 | *** | ||||||||
| Relationship history | |||||||||||
| In first union (Ref.) | |||||||||||
| Separated | 0.015 | 0.120 | ** | ||||||||
| Repartnered | 0.006 | 0.017 | |||||||||
| In 3+ union | 0.005 | 0.084 | * | ||||||||
| Never been in a union | 0.036 | 0.068 | |||||||||
| Education | |||||||||||
| Nontertiary (Ref.) | |||||||||||
| Tertiary | –0.089 | ** | –0.040 | ||||||||
| N | 760 | 760 | 803 | 803 | |||||||
| Pseudo-R2 | 0.121 | 0.138 | 0.147 | 0.180 | |||||||
NOTE: All models control for education and country. Reference category: having a larger or equal to ideal family size.
SOURCE: Authors’ calculations based on GGSII data.
Significance levels:
*
p < 0.05,
**
p < 0.01,
***
p < 0.001.