Fertility Treatments and Divorce
Maria Sironi, University College London
Anna Barbuscia, Oxford University
This study investigates the association between the use of fertility treatment and divorce in a sample of American women in their first marriage (N=11,498). Discrete-time event history analysis on data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) 2002-2013 shows that women who received medical help to get pregnant have a lower probability of experiencing divorce. This is especially true when the treatment is successful. However, also women who do not experience alive birth after the treatment have a lower probability of divorce compared to childless women who never started a fertility treatment
Presented in Session 1109: Families and Households