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The contribution of increases in family benefits to Australia’s early 21st-century fertility increase: An empirical analysis
Parr, Nick - In: Demographic Research 25 (2011) 6, pp. 215-244
Between 2001 and 2008 Australia’s total fertility increased from 1.73 to 1.96. This period also saw changes to family … effects of changes to family benefits, macroeconomic variables, entitlements to family-friendly working conditions, and …
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Cohabiting unions in France and West Germany
Goff, Jean-Marie Le - In: Demographic Research 7 (2002) 18, pp. 593-624
Rhine which hamper or foster childbearing in cohabiting unions. Using data from the French and German Family and Fertility … Survey, we apply event history modeling to the transition to marriage and first birth. Our results indicate a polarization of … family forms in both countries. In West Germany, we find a polarization in a "family sector" and a "non-family sector" while …
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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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Cohabitation, nonmarital childbearing, and the marriage process
Musick, Kelly - In: Demographic Research 16 (2007) 9, pp. 249-286
in the family system, suggesting that cohabitation may be a step on the way to marriage for some, but an end in itself … nonmarital fertility net of cohabitors’ potentially greater likelihood of marriage. I distinguish between intended and … childbearing outside of marriage by up to 50%, depending on race/ethnicity. These results speak to cohabitation’s evolving place …
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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
marriage/union formation and dissolution in the future years in the two-sex family household projection model is proposed. The … 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 life table model. Procedures for estimating time-varying sex …
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Family structure and wellbeing of out-of-wedlock children
Heiland, Frank; Liu, Shirley H. - In: Demographic Research 15 (2006) 4, pp. 61-104
This study examines the role of the relationship between the biological parents in determining child wellbeing using longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS). We extend prior research by considering children born to unmarried parents in an investigation of...
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Family policies in the context of low fertility and social structure
Fent, Thomas; Diaz, Belinda Aparicio; Prskawetz, Alexia - In: Demographic Research 29 (2013) 37, pp. 963-998
In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of family policies in the context of the structure of a society. We use … aggregate level. The crucial features of our model are the interactions between family policies and social structure, the agents … effect of family policies (the alleviation of resource constraints) from the indirect effect (the diffusion of fertility …
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Preface to the Rostock Debate on Demographic Change
Bernardi, Laura; Hetze, Pascal - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 6, pp. 175-178
The first Rostock Debate on Demographic Change, which took place on February 21, 2006, centered on the following question: Should governments in Europe push much more aggressively for gender equality to raise fertility? The four debaters were Laurent Toulemon from the Institut National...
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Should governments in Europe be more aggressive in pushing for gender equality to raise fertility? The second "NO"
Neyer, Gerda - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 10, pp. 225-250
This paper argues against the suggestion that governments should push for gender equality more aggressively in order to raise fertility. The paper presents a threefold “no†to this proposal. It takes issue with the goal of raising fertility, arguing that the claims that fertility must...
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Understanding the long term effects of family policies on fertility: The diffusion of different family models in France and Germany
Salles, Anne; Rossier, Clémentine; Brachet, Sara - In: Demographic Research 22 (2010) 34, pp. 1057-1096
European countries in which mothers are encouraged to remain in the labour market have higher fertility levels. It is difficult, however, to link specific policies to fertility increases. We hypothesize that policy changes do not affect fertility decisions in the short term as long as external...
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