Sweden, taking the perspective of couples. Using register data for the years 1981 to 1999 we estimate event-history models … Home Economics’, for example). The finding that a traditional family context tends to hamper higher parity births in Sweden … points to a relatively high degree of gender equity in that society. …

There has been a lot of demographic research concerning the relationship between education and fertility. Most studies … fields. Our results indicate that studies of the relationship between education and fertility need to include individual as …

stärker von der Partnerschaftsqualität abhängen, als die von kinderlosen Paaren. Although many studies consider fertility … fertility intentions. This study uses survey data from 2.793 couples of the German „Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and … Family Dynamics“ (pairfam) to evaluate congruent fertility intentions of couples, and considers self-perceived relationship …

the microcensus panel for inves-tigations in the field of fertility research. In the first part of the paper, we … line with previous findings on fertility behavior in Germany. But even though that our first investigations provide … reasonable results, there are several shortcomings of the data, which we also discussed: First, fertility histories are not …