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Providing easy access to cross-country comparative contextual data for demographic research: concept and recent advances of the Generations & Gender Programme Contextual Database

Caporali, Arianna; Klüsener, Sebastian; Neyer, Gerda R.; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

Demographic behaviour is shaped not only by characteristics at the individual level, but also by the context in which individuals are embedded. The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) supports research on these micro-macro links by providing cross-country...

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Social norms, economic conditions and spatial variation of childbearing within cohabitation across Europe

Lappegård, Trude; Klüsener, Sebastian; Vignoli, Daniele - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014

Childbearing within cohabitation has gained considerable ground in recent decades, but existing explanations for this development are not coherent. Proponents of the Second Demographic Transition framework interpret it rather as a pattern of progress driven by processes such as emancipation from...

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Social norms, family policies, and fertility trends: insights from a comparative study on the German-speaking region in Belgium

Klüsener, Sebastian; Neels, Karel; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

Several countries in Northern and Western Europe report cohort fertility rates of close to two children per woman, including Belgium, France, and Denmark. By contrast, most Central and Southern European countries have cohort fertility levels of only around 1.5-1.6 children. Germany is part of...

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The sex differential in mortality: a historical comparison of the adult-age pattern of the ratio and the difference

Wisser, Oliver; Vaupel, James W. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014

The ratio (RMR) is the standard measure of sex differentials in mortality. It is commonly known that the RMR was historically small and increased throughout the 20th century. However, numerical properties might account for the trend in the RMR rather than sex differences in risk factors. In this...

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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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The long-standing demographic East-West-divide in Germany

Klüsener, Sebastian; Goldstein, Joshua R. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

Over the last decades numerous studies have dealt with demographic differences between the former communist eastern part of Germany and western Germany. Although the demography of these two regions has converged with respect to mortality and overall fertility levels, non-marital births are the...

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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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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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