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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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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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The Fertility Pattern of Twins and the General Population Compared: Evidence from Danish Cohorts 1945-64

Kohler, Hans-Peter; Knudsen, Lisbeth B.; Skytthe, Axel; … - In: Demographic Research 6 (2002) 14, pp. 383-408

Twin studies provide an important possibility for demographers to analyze patterns of heritability and to estimate structural models with controls for endowments. These possibilities are increasingly used in the context of fertility and related behaviors. A close congruence between the fertility...

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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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