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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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The genealogy of Eastern European difference: an insider’s view

Szoltysek, Mikolaj - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011

The view of Eastern Europe as a locus of complex family organisation and familistic societal values has reached the status of general dogma in Western social sciences and demography. By offering an overview of almost entirely unknown scholarly achievements of Eastern Europeanists, this essay...

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Shifting economic foundation of marriage in Japan: the erosion of traditional marriage

Fukuda, Setsuya - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009

Japan is one of few developed countries in which marriage and higher earning potential among women are negatively associated. As the proportion of births occurring outside of marriage remains low in Japan, fertility is still significantly influenced by marriage trends, which are in turn...

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Leaving the parental home in post-war Japan: social, economic and demographic determinants

Fukuda, Setsuya - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between home-leaving intensities of young adults and the rapid social, economic, and demographic changes that took place in post-World War II Japan. By using event-history modeling, the study shows that the declines in sibling numbers and in rural residence...

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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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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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Institutional arrangements and life course outcomes: the interrelations between cohabitation, marriage and first birth in Germany and Sweden

Baizán, Pau; Aassve, Arnstein; Billari, Francesco C. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2002

We study the link between institutional arrangements and fertility, focusing on how institutions affect the nexus between partnership formation and fertility. We apply simultaneous hazard models to family and fertility survey data for Germany and Sweden. Our results show a significant presence...

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Angleichung oder Verfestigung von Differenzen? Geburtenentwicklung und Familienformen in Ost- und Westdeutschland

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Konietzka, Dirk - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004

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The dangers of conditioning on the time of occurrence of one demographic process in the analysis of another

Hoem, Jan M. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

Demographers and others often study the interaction between two types of individual-level behaviour, such as migration and childbearing. Unfortunately, one can get estimation bias if one compares childbearing before and after migration from data confined to migrants, say, as is sometimes done to...

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