The role of migration on fertility and partnership life courses in the United States.

This paper applies sequence and cluster analysis to identify groups of men and women with similar trajectories of fertility and family formation and dissolution in the US. Six typical trajectories are found for both men and women. These trajectories go from low-intensity family trajectories: childlessness and singlehood (Never married), to traditional, relatively delayed and stable family trajectories (Delayed and Normative), to highly-intense family paths of unstable marriages (Unstable), single-parenthood (Single parent) and early transitions and high fertility (Early). I use multinomial-logistic models to correlate these trajectories with race/ethnicity and age at migration, while controlling by birth cohort, religion and educational attainment. Predicted probabilities are used to highlight the socioeconomic stratification of family trajectories. This stratification is stronger for women than men and it is affected by the migration experience. Net of socioeconomic characteristics, migrants are less likely to follow high-order trajectories, especially those associated to instability and single-motherhood. I used data from the five most recent waves of the National Survey of Family Growth (1995 to 2015) a national representative survey that collects marital, educational and fertility histories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]