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Childlessness and educational attainment among Swedish women born in 1955-59

Hoem, Jan M.; Neyer, Gerda R.; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2005

In this paper, we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education attained in addition to … the conventional level of education. Our empirical investigation uses register records containing childbearing and … education serves as an indicator of a woman’s potential reproductive behavior better than the mere level. We discover that in …

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Education and permanent childlessness: Austria vs. Sweden; a research note

Neyer, Gerda R.; Hoem, Jan M. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008

educated for teaching jobs or for health occupations typically have lower childlessness than other lines of education. However …

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Educational attainment and ultimate fertility among Swedish women born in 1955-59

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

some sixty educational groups of Swedish women, defined according to field of education as well as level of education. The … first paper is about childlessness and education, the present one about the mean number of children ever born. We find that … ultimate fertility decreases somewhat with an increasing educational level, but its dependence on the field of education is …

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Kinderlosigkeit, Bildungsrichtung und Bildungsniveau. Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung schwedischer Frauen der Geburtenjahrgänge 1955-59

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

There has been a lot of demographic research concerning the relationship between education and fertility. Most studies …, however, focus on the level of education and do not include the field of education. Our paper shows that the field of … education serves as a better indicator of a woman’s potential reproductive behavior than the level of education does. Our …

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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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Economic uncertainty and family dynamics in Europe (Introduction to special issue of Demographic Research)

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Andersson, Gunnar; Pailhé, Ariane - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

This special collection of Demographic Research is devoted to the issue of how economic and employment uncertainties relate to fertility and family dynamics in Europe. The collection is based on contributions to a workshop held in Berlin in July 2009, which in turn was stimulated by the onset of...

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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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Migration and first-time parenthood: evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Nedoluzhko, Lesia; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

-history techniques to data from the “Marriage, Fertility, and Migration” survey conducted in northern Kyrgyzstan in 2005 to estimate …

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Social differentials in speed-premium effects in childbearing in Sweden

Andersson, Gunnar; Hoem, Jan M.; Duvander, Ann-Zofie - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2005

In Sweden, parents receive a parental-leave allowance of a high percentage of their pre-birth salary for about a year in connection with any birth. (The percentage has changed over time, as has the period for which it is paid. For a birth that appears in 2005, parents get 80% of the salary for...

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Small effects of selective migration and selective survival in retrospective studies of fertility

Andersson, Gunnar; Sobolev, Boris - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2001

In this paper, we assess the accuracy of fertility estimates that are based on the retrospective information that can be derived from an existing cross-sectional population. Swedish population registers contain the information on childbearing of all people ever living in Sweden and thus allow us...

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