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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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Biological and sociological interpretations of age-adjustment in studies of higher order birth rates

Gerster, Mette; Keiding, Niels - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 31, pp. 1205-1216

Several studies of the effect of education on second or third birth rates (e.g. Hoem et al. (2001)) have used the …

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Education and second birth rates in Denmark 1981-1994

Gerster, Mette; Keiding, Niels; Knudsen, Lisbeth B.; … - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 8, pp. 181-210

, we examine to what extent the partner's education can explain some of the positive effect. We find no evidence that the … positive effect of education is due to either a time-squeeze nor to a partner effect. …

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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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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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Modelling regional variation of first-time births in Denmark 1980-1994 by an age-period-cohort model

Thygesen, Lau Caspar; Knudsen, Lisbeth B.; Keiding, Niels - In: Demographic Research 13 (2005) 23, pp. 573-596

Despite the small size of Denmark, there have traditionally been rather consistent regional differences in fertility rates. We apply the statistical age-period-cohort model to include the effect of these three time-related factors thereby concisely illuminating the regional differences of...

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