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High development and fertility: fertility at older reproductive ages and gender equality explain the positive link
Myrskylä, Mikko; Kohler, Hans-Peter; Billari, Francesco C. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011
A fundamental reversal of the traditional fertility-development relationship has occurred in highly developed countries … so that further socioeconomic development is no longer associated with decreasing fertility, but with increasing … fertility. In this paper, we seek to shed light on the mechanisms underlying this reversal by analyzing data from 1975 to 2008 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322377
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Agricultural productivity growth and escape from the Malthusian trap
Kögel, Tomas; Prskawetz, Alexia - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2000
Industrialization allowed the industrialized world of today to escape from a regime characterized by low economic and … a two-sector growth model with endogenous fertility and endogenous technological progress in the manufacturing sector … lead to decreasing fertility. (AUTHORS) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700135
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Developing country growth collapse revisited: demographic influences and regional differences
Liddle, Brantley - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2003
This paper bridges two related, but up to now, unconnected literatures: economic growth stability and population-economic growth. The paper is different from previous population-economic growth analyses by focusing on instability of economic growth in developing countries. This study contributes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005565975
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Providing easy access to cross-country comparative contextual data for demographic research: concept and recent advances of the Generations & Gender Programme Contextual Database
Caporali, Arianna; Klüsener, Sebastian; Neyer, Gerda R.; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013
Demographic behaviour is shaped not only by characteristics at the individual level, but also by the context in which individuals are embedded. The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) supports research on these micro-macro links by providing cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851041
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Social norms, economic conditions and spatial variation of childbearing within cohabitation across Europe
Lappegård, Trude; Klüsener, Sebastian; Vignoli, Daniele - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014
Childbearing within cohabitation has gained considerable ground in recent decades, but existing explanations for this development are not coherent. Proponents of the Second Demographic Transition framework interpret it rather as a pattern of progress driven by processes such as emancipation from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851044
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Normative and allocation role strain: role incompatibility, outsourcing, and the transition to a second birth in Eastern and Western Germany
Raz-Yurovich, Liat - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
explanations concerning the low fertility levels in developed countries. This study examines the role of the outsourcing of … household labor and of childcare responsibilities in reducing the incompatibility of women’s roles and in increasing fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851048
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Geschlechtsspezifische Arbeitsmarktsegregation und Geburtenverhalten: neue Befunde auf Basis der „Biografiedaten ausgewählter Sozialversicherungsträger in Deutschland“ (BASiD)...
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Vatterrott, Anja - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013
complete fertility histories of women as well as longitudinal information of firm-specific characteristics where these women … fertility behavior. Women who are employed in female-dominated firms have substantially higher first, second and third birth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851051
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Close kin influences on fertility behavior
White, Robert G.; Bernardi, Laura - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008
examine the importance of social interactions in fertility outcomes by assessing family members’ scope of influence on their … fellow kin’s fertility behavior. With the unique KASS genealogical dataset from eight countries in Europe, we study the … effects of family members’ fertility outcomes on individual fertility to assess the presence and the extent of inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005258373
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Happiness: before and after the kids
Myrskylä, Mikko; Margolis, Rachel - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
in fertility. However, most research on fertility and happiness uses cross-sectional data, hindering causal conclusions … most among those who postpone and have more resources. This recipe for happiness is highly consistent with the fertility … fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646131
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Spatial aspects of the rise of nonmarital fertility across Europe since 1960: the role of states and regions in shaping patterns of change
Klüsener, Sebastian; Perelli-Harris, Brienna; Gassen, … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
This paper investigates the role of states and regions in shaping spatial patterns of non-marital fertility in Europe … substantial nonmarital fertility increases over the last 50 years. Prior research by Watkins (1991) has shown that in the first … continue to play such a dominant role in delineating patterns of nonmarital fertility between 1960 and 2007. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646132