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Table 1. America’s reproductive technology shock
	1965-69	1970-74	1975-79	1980-84
Births (thousands)
Total	3,599	3,370	3,294	3,646
White	2,990	2,760	2,660	2,915
Black	542	583	540	590
Birthrates per 1,000 married women, age 15-44
White	119.4	103.6	93.1	94.5
Black	129.1	110.3	93.3	90.6
Birthrates per 1,000 unmarried women, age 15-44
White	12.7	12.6	13.7	18.9
Black	91.0	94.6	85.5	81.7
Women married, age 15-44 (percent)
White	67.8	65.3	61.6	58.8
Black	55.9	52.9	45.2	39.9
Out-of-wedlock births (thousands)
Total	322	406	515	715
White	144	166	220	355
Black	189	230	280	337
Women age 16 with sexual experience (percent)
White	13.8	23.2	28.1	32.8
Black	35.0	42.3	50.8	49.9
Unmarried women using the pill at first intercourse (percent)
Total	5.7	15.2	13.4	NA
Abortions, unmarried women, age 15-44 (thousands)
Total	88	561	985	1,271
First birth shotgun marriage rate (percent)
White	59.2	55.4	45.7	42.0
Black	24.8	19.5	11.0	11.4
Adoptions (thousands)
Total	158	156	129	142
Ratio of adoptions to births to mothers not married within three years of birth
Total	49.0	38.4	29.0	19.8
George A. Akerlof, Janet L. Yelln, and Michael L. Katz, “An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1996

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