Nearly every European country has experienced some increase in nonmarital childbearing, largely due to increasing … births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing … within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using retrospective union and fertility histories, we employ competing risk …

childbearing in post-Soviet Russia. We employ a combination of methods to decompose fertility rates by union status and analyze the … is not due to the changing fertility behavior of cohabitors, nor to changes in union behavior after conception, but due … and nonmarital childbearing has not changed over time; the least educated women have the highest birth rates within …

understanding low fertility in this country, but that the role that family plays in a couple’s fertility decisions needs to be … understood in light of the wider context of normative influences on life-course transitions. While choices about childbearing … residential independence of the new nuclear family. The empirical data are 74 semi-structured interviews with women between ages …

effects of family policies on childbearing and fertility. … the effects of family policies on fertility. Theoretically we employ approaches of comparative welfare-state research, of …-of-theart of such an approach. We present studies on the impact of family policies on Swedish childbearing behavior to demonstrate …

and childbearing. Unfortunately, one can get estimation bias if one compares childbearing before and after migration from … data confined to migrants, say, as is sometimes done to see whether international migration disrupts fertility. Similar …

childbearing, using a ten percent sample from a longitudinal register data set that covers the entire female population of … effects of a change in female population composition by economic characteristics on the fertility trend were small. …

displayed a corresponding speed-up effect in childbearing for Swedish-born women. This change in behavior is of general interest … since it is clear evidence of a causal effect of a policy change on childbearing behavior. In the present paper, we study …-up of childbearing differed by educational attainment and by country of origin, to see whether some social groups reacted …

that childbearing history plays an important role in predicting the divorce risks of families with various types of … children. Producing a common child cements bonds in the family but as the youngest common child grows up, his or her role of … maintaining family relations weakens. Families with premarital children from the wife´s relation with another man clearly have a …

The whole region of the South and East Mediterranean exhibits a profound fertility transition with marked differences … in the pace of fertility declines among the countries. The authors choose three representative countries: Egypt, Morocco … and Turkey. Determinants of the propensity towards smaller family size are investigated as scrutinizing the development in …

German Family Panel (pairfam), which collected information on the partnership status at first birth using two different … methods. The first method is based on data on partnership and fertility histories collected retrospectively. The second method …