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High development and fertility: fertility at older reproductive ages and gender equality explain the positive link

Myrskylä, Mikko; Kohler, Hans-Peter; Billari, Francesco C. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011

A fundamental reversal of the traditional fertility-development relationship has occurred in highly developed countries so that further socioeconomic development is no longer associated with decreasing fertility, but with increasing fertility. In this paper, we seek to shed light on the...

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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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New cohort fertility forecasts for the developed world

Myrskylä, Mikko; Goldstein, Joshua R.; Cheng, Yen-hsin … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

The 1970s worries of the "population bomb" were replaced in the 1990s with concerns of population aging driven by falling birth rates. Across the developed world, the nearly universally-used fertility indicator, the period total fertility rate, fell well below two children per woman. However,...

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Gendering the family composition: sex preferences for children and childbearing behavior in the Nordic countries

Andersson, Gunnar; Hank, Karsten; Rønsen, Marit; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004

It has been argued recently that a society’s ‘gender system’ influences parents’ sex preferences for children. If this was true, one should expect to find no evidence of such preferences in countries with a high level of gender equality. In this paper we exploit population register data...

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Fertilität, Familiengründung und Familienerweiterung in den nordischen Ländern

Neyer, Gerda R.; Andersson, Gunnar; Hoem, Jan M.; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Geburtenentwicklung in den nordischen Ländern seit den 1970er Jahren und den Wirkungen familienpolitischer Maßnahmen auf die Fertilitätsentwicklung. Basis der Analysen bilden Auswertungen harmonisierter Registerdaten Dänemarks, Finnlands, Norwegens...

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Welfare state context, female earnings and childbearing

Andersson, Gunnar; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Mika, Tatjana - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009

This paper investigates the role of female earnings in childbearing decisions in two very different European contexts. By applying event history techniques to German and Danish register data during 1981-2001, we demonstrate how female earnings relate to first, second and third birth rates. Our...

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The Generations and Gender Contextual Database: concepts and content

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

This paper aims at contributing to a proposal for the concept and content of the Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Program. We develop guidelines for data collection by identifying the main focus, the key dimensions as well as the main data types of the GGP Contextual Database....

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The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Program

Spielauer, Martin - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

The increasing recognition that the study of human behaviors has to take into account the multiple contexts in which they occur has opened a promising research avenue in social sciences. It also presents new challenges, e.g., to complement micro-level surveys with the collection of meaningful...

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Seasonal mortality in Denmark: the role of sex and age

Rau, Roland; Doblhammer, Gabriele - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2003

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Settlement size and fertility in the Nordic countries

Kulu, Hill; Vikat, Andres; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

There is a growing body of literature that looks at the causes of below-replacement fertility in developed countries. While the variation in childbearing patterns across countries and between socio-economic groups within a country has been studied in detail, little is known about the differences...

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