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Close kin influences on fertility behavior

White, Robert G.; Bernardi, Laura - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008

Family members are uniquely situated to influence the decision-making of their kin in nearly every facet of life. We examine the importance of social interactions in fertility outcomes by assessing family members’ scope of influence on their fellow kin’s fertility behavior. With the unique...

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Spatial aspects of the rise of nonmarital fertility across Europe since 1960: the role of states and regions in shaping patterns of change

Klüsener, Sebastian; Perelli-Harris, Brienna; Gassen, … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

This paper investigates the role of states and regions in shaping spatial patterns of non-marital fertility in Europe since 1960 using a dataset of 497 European subnational regions and smaller countries. Almost all regions registered substantial nonmarital fertility increases over the last 50...

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Spatial construction of European family and household systems: a promising path or a blind alley? An Eastern European perspective

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

This essay represents an attempt at a re-examination of the Western scientific evidence for the existence of the divergent “Eastern European family pattern.” This evidence is challenged by almost entirely unknown contributions of Eastern European scholars, revealing the stark incompatibility...

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Patterns of lowest-low fertility in Europe

Billari, Francesco C.; Kohler, Hans-Peter - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2002

In this paper we conduct descriptive aggregate analyses to revisit the relation between low and lowest-low period fertility on the one, and cohort fertility and key fertility-related behaviors---such as leaving the parental home, marriage and female labor force participation---on the other side....

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Dissolution of unions in Europe: a comparative overview

Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2003

In this paper, we present a number of descriptive measures of couples’ experience of union dissolution in a wide range of European countries. We use data from the last round of Fertility and Family Surveys in order to get a broad cross-country comparison of levels and basic patterns of union...

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The educational gradient of nonmarital childbearing in Europe: emergence of a pattern of disadvantage?

Perelli-Harris, Brienna; Sigle-Rushton, Wendy; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2010

Nearly every European country has experienced some increase in nonmarital childbearing, largely due to increasing births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using...

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Why do women in former communist countries look unhappy? A demographic perspective

Kageyama, Junji - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009

This paper investigates the causes of the positive correlation between happiness and the sex gap in happiness between …. The mechanisms working behind are as follows. First, national average happiness affects the sex gap in life expectancy … gap in happiness negatively because it affects the chance of being a widow for women. Using a 3SLS approach, it found that …

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Harmonized histories: manual for the preparation of comparative fertility and union histories

Perelli-Harris, Brienna; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Kubisch, … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2010

This document describes the standardization process of the Harmonized Histories. The Harmonized Histories is a comparative database of rich reproductive and union histories from surveys conducted in a number of countries in Europe. Given that birth and union data has been collected in a number...

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The increase in fertility in cohabitation across Europe: examining the intersection between union status and childbearing

Perelli-Harris, Brienna; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009

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To concentration of reproduction in cohorts of US and European women

Shkolnikov, Vladimir M.; Andreev, Evgueni M.; Houle, René - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004

We study inter-individual variability in number of children among women. Concentration ratio (CR) and percentile measures are used. In most countries CR has increasing from cohorts of the 1930s-40s onward due to rise in childlessness. In cohorts of the early 1960s CR varies from 0.24 to 0.46...

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