In this article we examine to what extent norms of filial obligation in the Netherlands are shaped by group value patterns, family constellation, opportunities to help others, and actual experiences of support exchange. The data are drawn from the first wave of the combined main and migrant...

Using a cohort of 3,021 young migrants from rural Thailand, we examine economic and non-economic determinants of return migration. We ?follow? this cohort prospectively for sixteen years from preadolescence to young adulthood. Data come from the Nang Rong project, a longitudinal study of an...

This short paper offers an original look at the fertility transition in India through the lens of the period parity progression ratios (PPPRs). Taking advantage of nearly 300,000 birth history data collected in three nationally representative surveys (National Family Health Survey, NFHS)...

The aim of this paper is to decompose the increase in the share of out-of-wedlock births in Poland into two components : one attributed to the changing structure of births based on marital status at conception, and one related to the declining propensity for shotgun weddings. Analysis of data...