educational histories of an entire cohort of women born in Sweden (about a quarter-million individuals). This allows us to operate … and extrinsic to an educational system (such as its flexibility, its gender structure, and the manner in which education …

There is a growing body of literature that looks at the causes of below-replacement fertility in developed countries … studied in detail, little is known about the differences in fertility patterns across settlements within a country. A few … recent studies suggest that there are persistent differentials between high- and low-fertility settlements in contemporary …

By current European standards, Sweden has had a relatively high fertility in recent decades. During the 1980s and 1990s …, the annual Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for Sweden undulated considerably around a level just under 1.8, which is a bit ….76 on an upward trend.) The Swedish completed Cohort Fertility Rate (CFR) was rather constant at 2 for the cohorts that …

Sweden. The study uses a longitudinal, register-based data set consisting of the entire population of immigrants from ten …

Extending recent research on parental gender preferences in the Nordic countries, this study uses unique register data … from Finland and Sweden (1971-1999) that provide us with the opportunity to compare childbearing dynamics and possible … underlying sex preferences among natives and national minorities, namely Finnish-born immigrants in Sweden and members of the …

In Sweden, the birth of a child induces the right to more than one year of paid parental leave that can be shared …-leave use and childbearing of all intact unions in Sweden during 1988-99. We analyze our data by means of event-history analysis …

women’s labour-force participation and to promote gender equality. The focus is to strengthen individuals so that they are … child-care, which allows women to return to work after parental leave. Fertility has fluctuated during recent decades but … Swedish context clearly is conducive to such “highest-low” fertility. In this study, I show that institutional factors seem to …

We investigate the timing of fertility and marriage as it depends on educational attainment utilizing a birth …-month experiment in Sweden that leads to exogenous variation in the age at completing schooling. Our analysis finds that the difference … second births and the age at first marriage, but it does not affect completed fertility or the overall probability to marry …

We study the link between institutional arrangements and fertility, focusing on how institutions affect the nexus … between partnership formation and fertility. We apply simultaneous hazard models to family and fertility survey data for … Germany and Sweden. Our results show a significant presence of correlated unobserved factors that affect both partnership …

This is the second of two companion papers addressing the association between educational attainment and fertility for … ultimate fertility decreases somewhat with an increasing educational level, but its dependence on the field of education is … ultimate fertility, and educational groups with much childlessness have relatively low ultimate fertility. In particular, women …