fellow kin’s fertility behavior. With the unique KASS genealogical dataset from eight countries in Europe, we study the …

This paper investigates the role of states and regions in shaping spatial patterns of non-marital fertility in Europe … half of the 20th century states played a dominant role in drawing the demographic map of Europe. As a result, subnational … variation in nonmarital fertility levels increased as a whole across Europe, and states continued to be important for …

to show the true diversity of familial organization in Eastern Europe, which had been placed at the other end of the … the rhythms of their development in historical Eastern Europe presented in this literature should finally free us from a …

show that the cross-country correlations in Europe between the total fertility level on the one side, and the total first …

order to find out to what extent patterns in Europe differ from those at the other side of the Atlantic. With a number of … to study. Nevertheless, a high degree of variation also exists within Europe; a number of Catholic countries in Southern … and Eastern Europe impress with particularly low levels of union dissolution. …

births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing … hazard models to examine the educational gradient of childbearing in cohabitation in 8 countries across Europe. In all …

women and men observed in Europe. Departing from a variety of hypotheses that are based on the sex differences at the …

comparative database of rich reproductive and union histories from surveys conducted in a number of countries in Europe. Given …