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Consequences of family policies on childbearing behavior: effects or artifacts?

Neyer, Gerda R.; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

This paper argues that theoretical and methodological aspects account for the ambiguous results of investigations into the effects of family policies on fertility. Theoretically we employ approaches of comparative welfare-state research, of the sociology of “constructed categories”, and of...

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High suburban fertility: evidence from four Northern European countries

Kulu, Hill; Boyle, Paul J.; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008

: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We move beyond the conventional urban-rural focus of most previous studies of within …

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Dissolution of unions in Europe: a comparative overview

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

order to find out to what extent patterns in Europe differ from those at the other side of the Atlantic. With a number of … to study. Nevertheless, a high degree of variation also exists within Europe; a number of Catholic countries in Southern … and Eastern Europe impress with particularly low levels of union dissolution. …

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