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Towards a new understanding of cohabitation

Perelli-Harris, Brienna; Mynarska, Monika; Berrington, Ann - In: Demographic Research 31 (2014) 34, pp. 1043-1078

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Do low survey response rates bias results? Evidence from Japan

Rindfuss, Ronald R.; Choe, Minja K.; Tsuya, Noriko O.; … - In: Demographic Research 32 (2015) 26, pp. 797-828

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Household composition across the new Europe: Where do the new Member States fit in?

Iacovou, Maria; Skew, Alexandra J. - In: Demographic Research 25 (2011) 14, pp. 465-490

In this paper we present indicators of household structure for 26 of the 27 countries of the post-enlargement European Union. As well as broad indicators of household type, we present statistics on single-person and extended-family households, and on the households of children and older people....

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Family, money, and health: regional differences in the determinants of life cycle life satisfaction

Margolis, Rachel; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

We examine how family, money, and health explain variation in life satisfaction (“happiness”) over the life cycle …. Globally, these factors explain a substantial fraction of happiness, increasing from 12 percent in young adulthood to 15 … in the wealthier, and income in the poorer regions of the world. Family explains a substantial fraction of happiness only …

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How policy matters: Germany’s parental leave benefit reform and fathers’ behavior 1999-2009

Geisler, Esther; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

In 2007, Germany enacted a radical new parental leave benefit scheme that grants parents 67 percent of their previous income, and includes two “daddy months.” In this paper, we use data from the German Microcensus for the period 1999 to 2009 to explore how this reform has changed fathers’...

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Germany: Family diversity with low actual and desired fertility

Dorbritz, Jürgen - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 17, pp. 557-598

Germany is a low-fertility country with a rapidly ageing population, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. There are several reasons for this trend. Germany is among the countries with the highest rates of childlessness in the world, and childlessness has become widely accepted. This is...

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Czech Republic: A rapid transformation of fertility and family behaviour after the collapse of state socialism

Sobotka, Tomas; Anna Å t’astná; Zeman, Krystof; … - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 14, pp. 403-454

Following the swift demise of the state-socialist regime in 1989, a profound transformation of family and fertility patterns has taken place in the Czech Republic. Family formation has been postponed and period fertility rates have fallen to very low levels, especially among young adults....

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Generations and Gender Survey (GGS)

Vikat, Andres; Spéder, Zsolt; Beets, Gijs; Billari, … - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 14, pp. 389-440

The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is one of the two pillars of the Generations and Gender Programme designed to improve understanding of demographic and social development and of the factors that influence these developments. This article describes how the theoretical perspectives applied...

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Population aging and the extended family in Taiwan

Mason, Andrew; Lee, Sang-Hyop - In: Demographic Research 10 (2004) 8, pp. 197-230

Population aging produces changes in the availability of kin with uncertain implications for extended living arrangements. We propose a highly stylized model that can be used to analyze and project age-specific proportions of adults living in extended and nuclear households. The model is applied...

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Estimating time-varying sex-age-specific o/e rates of marital status transitions in family household projection or simulation

Zeng, Yi; Stallard, Eric; Wang, Zhenglian - In: Demographic Research 11 (2004) 10, pp. 263-304

This article presents a procedure for estimating time-varying sex-age-specific occurrence/exposure (o/e) rates of marital status transitions to ensure that the projected life course propensities of marriage/union formation and dissolution are achieved consistently in the one-sex family status...

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