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Andersson, Gunnar; Liu, Guiping - In: Demographic Research 5 (2001) 3, pp. 65-78

previously published indexes of marriage, divorce, and childbearing risks by calendar year in order to cover the developments up …

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Educational attainment and ultimate fertility among Swedish women born in 1955-59

Hoem, Jan M.; Neyer, Gerda; Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 16, pp. 381-404

some sixty educational groups of Swedish women, defined according to field of education as well as level of education. The … first paper is about childlessness and education, the present one about the mean number of children ever born. We find that … ultimate fertility decreases somewhat with an increasing educational level, but its dependence on the field of education is …

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Education and childlessness

Hoem, Jan M.; Neyer, Gerda; Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 15, pp. 331-380

In this paper we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education taken in addition to the … conventional level of education attained. Our empirical investigation uses register records containing childbearing and educational … high number of educational field-and-level combinations (some sixty in all). It turns out that the field of education …

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Labor-market status, migrant status and first childbearing in Sweden

Lundström, Karin E.; Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 27 (2012) 25, pp. 719-742

During recent decades fertility in Sweden has evolved in tandem with the business cycle. Supported by social policies, both women and men tend to postpone starting a family until they have acquired a secure job with decent earnings. In this study we add to previous research by investigating how...

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Does fertility decrease household consumption?

Kim, Jungho; Engelhardt, Henriette; Prskawetz, Alexia; … - In: Demographic Research 20 (2009) 26, pp. 623-656

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between fertility and a direct measure of poverty for Indonesia, a country, which has experienced unprecedented economic growth and sharp fertility declines over recent decades. It focuses on illustrating the sensitivity of the effect...

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High Suburban Fertility: Evidence from Four Northern European Countries

Kulu, Hill; Boyle, Paul; Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 21 (2009) 31, pp. 915-944

This study examines fertility variation across different residential contexts in four Northern European countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We move beyond the conventional urban-rural focus of most previous studies of within-nation variations in fertility by distinguishing between...

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Childbearing dynamics of couples in a universalistic welfare state

Andersson, Gunnar; Scott, Kirk - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 30, pp. 897-938

This article studies childbearing dynamics by labor-market status of co-residing parents in Sweden. We apply event-history techniques to longitudinal register data on the life histories of foreign-born mothers from ten different countries and the partners to these women, as well as to a sample...

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Understanding parental gender preferences in advanced societies: Lessons from Sweden and Finland

Andersson, Gunnar; Hank, Karsten; Vikat, Andres - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 6, pp. 135-156

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...

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Austria: Persistent low fertility since the mid-1980s

Prskawetz, Alexia; Sobotka, Tomas; Buber-Ennser, Isabella; … - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 12, pp. 293-360

-specific developments, trends in family size, delayed childbearing and persistent fertility differences by education level, country of … patterns of leaving parental home, the rise in cohabitation, the decline in marriage and the rise of divorce and the diversity …

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Social differentials in speed-premium effects in childbearing in Sweden

Andersson, Gunnar; Hoem, Jan M.; Duvander, Ann-Zofie - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 4, pp. 51-70

In Sweden, parents receive a parental-leave allowance of a high percentage (currently 80%) of their pre-birth salary for about a year in connection with any birth. If they space their births sufficiently closely, they avoid a reduction in the allowance caused by any reduced income earned between...

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