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Economic stress or random variation? Revisiting german reunification as a natural experiment to investigate the effect of economic contraction on sex ratios at birth
Schnettler, Sebastian; Klüsener, Sebastian - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013
The economic stress hypothesis (ESH) suggests that economic decline leads to a decrease in the proportion of males born in a population. A multitude of additional influences on sex ratios that often cannot be accounted for empirically make assessing the validity of the ESH difficult. Thus, as a...
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Social norms, economic conditions and spatial variation of childbearing within cohabitation across Europe
Lappegård, Trude; Klüsener, Sebastian; Vignoli, Daniele - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014
Childbearing within cohabitation has gained considerable ground in recent decades, but existing explanations for this development are not coherent. Proponents of the Second Demographic Transition framework interpret it rather as a pattern of progress driven by processes such as emancipation from...
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Pathways to marriage and cohabitation in Central America
Grace, Kathryn; Sweeney, Stuart - In: Demographic Research 30 (2014) 6, pp. 187-226
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Do student loans delay marriage? Debt repayment and family formation in young adulthood
Bozick, Robert; Estacion, Angela - In: Demographic Research 30 (2014) 69, pp. 1865-1891
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The Second Demographic Transition in Israel: One for All?
Bystrov, Evgenia - In: Demographic Research 27 (2012) 10, pp. 261-298
This article explores family behaviours and attitudes in Israel over the last decades through the lens of the Second Demographic Transition (SDT). Israel is divided by religious affiliation, the level of religiosity, ethnic origin and timing of immigration. Although fertility transition to...
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The more you learn the less you know? Interpretive ambiguity across three modes of qualitative data
Angotti, Nicole; Kaler, Amy - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 33, pp. 951-980
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The power of the interviewer
Randall, Sara; Coast, Ernestina; Compaore, Natacha; … - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 27, pp. 763-792
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Does his paycheck also matter?
Jalovaara, Marika; Miettinen, Anneli - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 31, pp. 881-916
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Gender equality and fertility intentions revisited
Miettinen, Anneli; Basten, Stuart; Rotkirch, Anna - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 20, pp. 469-496
Stimulated by the recent debate on gender roles and men’s fertility behaviour (Puur et al. 2008; Westoff and Higgins …, intentions to have many (3 or more) children, and high personal fertility ideals among low-parity men and women. Gender equality … controlled for. Finding signs of a U-shaped association among men, we conclude that both traditional and egalitarian attitudes …
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Measuring the balance of government intervention on forward and backward family transfers using NTA estimates: the modified Lee Arrows
Patxot, Concepció; Renteria, Elisenda; Romero, Miguel … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
In this paper we propose a way to measure the degree of government intervention on forward –from parents to children– and backward –from adult children to elderly parents– intergenerational family transfers (IFT). We carry out a discussion about the possibility of using Generational...
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