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Andersson, Gunnar; Liu, Guiping - In: Demographic Research 5 (2001) 3, pp. 65-78

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

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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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Educational attainment and ultimate fertility among Swedish women born in 1955-59

Hoem, Jan M.; Neyer, Gerda; Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 16, pp. 381-404

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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Education and childlessness

Hoem, Jan M.; Neyer, Gerda; Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 15, pp. 331-380

In this paper we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education taken in addition to the … conventional level of education attained. Our empirical investigation uses register records containing childbearing and educational … high number of educational field-and-level combinations (some sixty in all). It turns out that the field of education …

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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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Education and permanent childlessness: Austria vs. Sweden; a research note

Neyer, Gerda R.; Hoem, Jan M. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008

educated for teaching jobs or for health occupations typically have lower childlessness than other lines of education. However …

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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

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Socioeconomic differences in the unemployment and fertility nexus: a comparison of Denmark and Germany

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

Studies that have investigated the role of unemployment in childbearing decisions have often provided conflicting results. We argue that many of the inconsistencies of prior research may be attributed to a neglect of group-specific differences in behavior. In this study, we examine how the...

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Providing easy access to cross-country comparative contextual data for demographic research: concept and recent advances of the Generations & Gender Programme Contextual Database

Caporali, Arianna; Klüsener, Sebastian; Neyer, Gerda R.; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

Demographic behaviour is shaped not only by characteristics at the individual level, but also by the context in which individuals are embedded. The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) supports research on these micro-macro links by providing cross-country...

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Labor-market status, migrant status and first childbearing in Sweden

Lundström, Karin E.; Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 27 (2012) 25, pp. 719-742

During recent decades fertility in Sweden has evolved in tandem with the business cycle. Supported by social policies, both women and men tend to postpone starting a family until they have acquired a secure job with decent earnings. In this study we add to previous research by investigating how...

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