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Increasingly stable or more stressful? Children and union dissolution across four decades. Evidence from Norway
Vinberg, Elina; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager; Lyngstad, … - 2015
). Combining self-reported union histories with register data on fertility histories, we construct a data set of person months for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968584
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Effects of income and the cost of children on fertility. Quasi-experimental evidence from Norway
Galloway, Taryn Ann; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager - 2015
The relationship between income, cost of childrearing and fertility is of considerable political and theoretical … fertility. The variation comes from a regional child benefit and tax reform implemented in the northern municipalities of the … group. Individual-level multivariate analysis suggests that a reduced direct cost of children increases fertility, mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968598
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Plant Closure and Marital Dissolution
Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; Votruba, Mark - 2007
We estimate the effect of plant closure on divorce using a panel data set comprising more than 80,000 married couples in Norway. Plant closure substantially increases the likelihood of marital dissolution of workers in affected plants. The marriages of husbands originally employed in plants that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968284
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Household affiliation of young adults in Italy and Norway. The significance of gender, sociocultural background, work and money
Addabbo, Tindara; Kjeldstad, Randi - 2013
Italy and Norway are characterized by different household patterns of young adults, with young Italians being more likely to live in their parents' house and young Norwegians more likely to live independently, alone or in multi-occupant households. This paper asks why, and how these differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968522
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Characteristics of parents with shared residence and father sole custody. Evidence from Norway 2012
Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Lyngstad, Jan - 2014
Shared residence for children has increased considerably in recent years among parents living apart in Norway, while mother sole custody is less common than before and father sole custody is still practiced by a minority. A similar pattern is observed in many other countries as well. In Norway,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968550
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Union dissolution and childlessness. New insights from sequence analysis
Hart, Rannveig Kaldager - 2015
. Data on union histories and fertility are taken from the Norwegian GGS. To observe union histories up to age 45, I include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968593
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Parenthood and couples’ relative earnings in Norway 2005-2014
Bergsvik, Janna; Wiik, Kenneth Aarskaug; Kitterød, … - 2018
In the current paper, we investigate within-couple inequality in earnings using Norwegian register data on married and cohabiting couples. We are particularly interested in assessing whether the negative relation between children and women’s relative earnings changed during the study period...
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Transitions from first unions among immigrants and their descendants. The role of partner choice
Holland, Jennifer A.; Wiik, Kenneth Aarskaug; … - 2018
The family life courses of immigrants and their descendants, particularly intermarriage and the timing of marriage and childbearing, have been widely studied as indicators of societal integration. But largely absent are investigations into the role of cohabitation in the family lives of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968657
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Divorced Fathers' Proximity and Children's Long Run Outcomes. Evidence from Norwegian Registry Data
Kalil, Ariel; Mogstad, Magne; Rege, Mari; Votruba, Mark - 2009
This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers' proximity and children's long-run outcomes using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow (from birth to young adulthood) 15,992 children born into married households in Norway in the years 1975-1979 whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968359
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Socioeconomic differentials in multi-partner fertility among men
Lappegård, Trude; Rønsen, Marit - 2011
This paper analyzes male fertility, focusing especially on multi-partner fertility, for cohorts born 1955 to 1984. We … having more children in stable unions. Multi-partner fertility, on the other hand, is positively associated with both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968423