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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...
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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,...
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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
This study describes the association between having children and the risk of union disruption, and whether this association has changed over time. We expand upon previous research by including data on cohabiting as well as married couples, and by studying change over four decades. We use data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968584
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Union dissolution and childlessness. New insights from sequence analysis
Hart, Rannveig Kaldager - 2015
This study investigates how the association between union dissolution and childlessness depends on life course context. Data on union histories and fertility are taken from the Norwegian GGS. To observe union histories up to age 45, I include men and women born 1927-1962, giving a study sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968593
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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
interest. We utilize exogenous variation in family income and the direct cost of children to estimate causal effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968598
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Parenthood and couples’ relative earnings in Norway 2005-2014
Bergsvik, Janna; Wiik, Kenneth Aarskaug; Kitterød, … - 2018
’s relative earnings changed during the study period 2005 to 2014. In this period, work-family policy measures meant to facilitate … mothers’ employment and promoting fathers’ family involvement were strengthened, and there was a sharp increase in women …
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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 … of cohabitation in the family lives of these subpopulations. Choosing cohabitation as first union may, for instance …-generation cohabiting couples. Among second-generation couples who married directly, on the other hand, 79% were endogamous. These marriages …
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 find that socioeconomic disadvantaged men have the lowest chance of becoming fathers, and also the lowest likelihood of having more children in stable unions. Multi-partner...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968423
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Untraditional caring arrangements among parents living apart. The case of Norway
Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Lyngstad, Jan - 2011
In spite of more symmetric parental roles in couples, shared residence is still practiced by a minority of parents following partnership dissolution in Norway, and the same is true for father sole custody. Utilising a survey of parents living apart in 2004, we find that shared residence is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968430