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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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A summary of Special Collection 3

Andersson, Gunnar; Neyer, Gerda - In: Demographic Research 10 (2004) 13, pp. 355-368

Special Collection 3: Contemporary Research on European Fertility: Perspectives and Developments was produced as a surprise in honor of Jan M. Hoem on his 65th birthday. The authors who have contributed to this special Volume presented their papers at a working party at the Max Planck Institute...

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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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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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Fertility developments in Norway and Sweden since the early 1960s

Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 6 (2002) 4, pp. 67-86

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of recent trends in childbearing in neighboring Norway and Sweden. We use indexes produced by applying indirect standardization to register data of these two countries in order to describe and contrast their fertility developments over the last...

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