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Family, money, and health: regional differences in the determinants of life cycle life satisfaction

Margolis, Rachel; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

We examine how family, money, and health explain variation in life satisfaction (“happiness”) over the life cycle …. Globally, these factors explain a substantial fraction of happiness, increasing from 12 percent in young adulthood to 15 … in the wealthier, and income in the poorer regions of the world. Family explains a substantial fraction of happiness only …

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How policy matters: Germany’s parental leave benefit reform and fathers’ behavior 1999-2009

Geisler, Esther; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

In 2007, Germany enacted a radical new parental leave benefit scheme that grants parents 67 percent of their previous income, and includes two “daddy months.” In this paper, we use data from the German Microcensus for the period 1999 to 2009 to explore how this reform has changed fathers’...

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Fertility and family configurations in Sardinia

Bernardi, Laura; Oppo, Anna - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

In this paper we argue that the strength of intergenerational relationships in Italy is one important element in understanding low fertility in this country, but that the role that family plays in a couple’s fertility decisions needs to be understood in light of the wider context of normative...

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Fertility of internal migrants: comparison between Austria and Poland

Kulu, Hill - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004

Previous research has proposed four competing views on an individual’s fertility following a move from one social context to another. Each view has received support but has also been challenged by literature. This study contributes to the existing discussion on fertility by providing an...

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Autonomy or conservative adjustment? The effect of public policies and educational attainment on third births in Austria

Hoem, Jan M.; Prskawetz, Alexia; Neyer, Gerda R. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2001

The standardised rate of third births declined by over 50 percent in Austria between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s. The third birth was also postponed gradually over the years up through 1991-92, after which the tempo of childbearing suddenly increased in response to a change in the...

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Childlessness and the concentration of reproduction in Austria

Spielauer, Martin - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004

In this paper we study the changes of reproduction concentration among women, the levels of childlessness, individual factors influencing childlessness, and the contribution of childlessness to the concentration of reproduction in Austria for the female age cohorts 1917-1961. International...

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Education and permanent childlessness: Austria vs. Sweden; a research note

Neyer, Gerda R.; Hoem, Jan M. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008

In this research note we extend our previous study of the association between educational attainment and permanent childlessness in Sweden (Hoem et al., 2006) to cover Austria, and we make comparisons between the two countries. In both investigations we have defined educational attainment in...

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Private car use in Austria by demographic structure and regional variations

Ewert, Ulf-Christian; Prskawetz, Alexia - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2000

Due to its manifold impact on the environment private car use represents an important dimension of en-vironmental behaviour in industrialized countries. Obviously, private car use is related to demographic characteris-tics of households such as the life-cycle stage and the living arrangement the...

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Does cohabitation prior to marriage raise the risk of marital dissolution and does this effect vary geographically?

Boyle, Paul J.; Kulu, Hill - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

A number of studies show that premarital cohabitation increases the risk of subsequent marital dissolution. Some argue that this is a consequence of selection effects and that once these are controlled for premarital cohabitation has no effect on dissolution. We extend this research by examining...

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Consequences of family policies on childbearing behavior: effects or artifacts?

Neyer, Gerda R.; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

This paper argues that theoretical and methodological aspects account for the ambiguous results of investigations into the effects of family policies on fertility. Theoretically we employ approaches of comparative welfare-state research, of the sociology of “constructed categories”, and of...

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