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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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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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The demographics of same-sex „marriages“ in Norway and Sweden

Andersson, Gunnar; Noack, Turid; Seierstad, Ane; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004

-sex marriage, biological parenthood, and educational attainment of the partners involved. We find that in many respects the …

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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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Erwerbsstatus und Familienentwicklung in Schweden aus paarbezogener Perspektive

Andersson, Gunnar; Duvander, Ann-Zofie; Hank, Karsten - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004

This paper investigates the role of men’s and women’s labor-market attachment in the process of family building in Sweden, taking the perspective of couples. Using register data for the years 1981 to 1999 we estimate event-history models for second and third births. It is shown that income...

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Childbearing dynamics of couples in a universalistic welfare state: the role of labor-market status, country of origin, and gender

Andersson, Gunnar; Scott, Kirk - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

In this paper, we provide a study of childbearing dynamics by the labor-market status of co-residing one- and two-child parents in Sweden. We apply event-history techniques to longitudinal register data on life histories of foreign-born mothers from ten different countries and the partners to...

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Demographic trends in Sweden: an update of childbearing and nuptiality through 2002

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

update previously published indexes of marriage, divorce, and childbearing risks by calendar year in order to cover the …

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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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