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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322377
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Lifespan variation by occupational class: compression or stagnation over time?
Raalte, Alyson A. van; Martikainen, Pekka; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
Adult lifespan variation in most western countries has stagnated since the 1960s, despite continued improvements in longevity. Cross-sectional analyses, however, find that in the 1990s higher socio-economic position was associated with lower lifespan variation. Trends in this association over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646129
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646130
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Happiness: before and after the kids
Myrskylä, Mikko; Margolis, Rachel - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
in fertility. However, most research on fertility and happiness uses cross-sectional data, hindering causal conclusions …. We study trajectories of parental happiness before and after the birth of a child using British and German panel data and … methods which control for unobserved parental characteristics. We find that happiness increases prior to and in the year of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646131
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Rainfall shocks, parental behavior and breastfeeding: evidence from rural Vietnam
Thai, Thuan Q.; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
In developing countries, rainfall shocks around the time of birth have been shown decrease later health. The mechanism is unknown, but could run through income shocks, disease exposure, or increasing opportunity cost of parental time which influences parenting behavior. We use the Vietnam...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646133
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Bayesian forecasting of cohort fertility
Schmertmann, Carl; Zagheni, Emilio; Goldstein, Joshua R.; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
There are already several documented examples of recent increases in cohort fertility in Scandinavia, but for most countries, cohorts are too young to see if cohort fertility has increased. We produce new estimates of completed cohort fertility for cohorts born in the 1970s. We combine the best...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646137
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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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Urban fertility responses to local government programs: evidence from the 1923-1932 U.S.
Fox, Jonathan F.; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011
During the 1920s and early 1930s, fertility in American municipalities declined overall and with large variation between areas and across time. Using data for 1923-1932 on fertility and public spending for over 50 large cities, we show that the local government programs of health education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360145
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A global perspective on happiness and fertility
Margolis, Rachel; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2010
The literature on fertility and happiness has neglected comparative analysis. We investigate the fertility-happiness … association using data for 86 countries. We find that globally, happiness decreases with the number of children. This association … happiness and fertility evolves from negative to neutral to positive above age 40, and is strongest among those who are likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550467
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Italy’s non-negligible cohabitational unions
Gabrielli, Giuseppe; Hoem, Jan M. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008
Recent trends in official statistics show strong increases in non-marital cohabitation in younger Italian generations. Moreover, other sources suggest that consensual unions have lasted longer in recent years before they were converted into marriages. In the present paper we consider entry into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004546