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Small effects of selective migration and selective survival in retrospective studies of fertility

Andersson, Gunnar; Sobolev, Boris - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2001

childbearing of all people ever living in Sweden and thus allow us to avoid any problems of selectivity by virtue of survival or of … for each year in 1961-1999: (i) rates that are based on the population that were living in Sweden at the end of 1999 and …

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Selectivity in higher-order childbearing in Sweden

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

In this note, we present relative risks of giving birth for mothers with different numbers of children. We use Swedish register data and study the propensity to continue the childbearing beyond child number two. We pay special attention to births of those higher orders that are studied only...

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Children's experience of family disruption and family formation: Evidence from 16 FFS countries

Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 7 (2002) 7, pp. 343-364

In this paper, we present a number of descriptive measures on childrenâ€™s experience of family disruption and family formation. We use data from the Fertility and Family Surveys of 15 European countries and corresponding data from the USA in order to find out what kind of family...

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Consequences of family policies on childbearing behavior: effects or artifacts?

Neyer, Gerda R.; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

This paper argues that theoretical and methodological aspects account for the ambiguous results of investigations into the effects of family policies on fertility. Theoretically we employ approaches of comparative welfare-state research, of the sociology of “constructed categories”, and of...

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High suburban fertility: evidence from four Northern European countries

Kulu, Hill; Boyle, Paul J.; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008

: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We move beyond the conventional urban-rural focus of most previous studies of within …

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Economic Uncertainty and Family Dynamics in Europe

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Andersson, Gunnar; Pailhé, Ariane - In: Demographic Research 27 (2012) 28, pp. 835-852

relate to fertility and family dynamics in Europe. The collection is based on contributions to a workshop held in Berlin in … unemployment, are related to the fertility and family formation of women and men in contexts across Europe. It covers studies on … Germany, the U.K., France, Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Italy, Spain, and Israel. …

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A summary of Special Collection 3

Andersson, Gunnar; Neyer, Gerda - In: Demographic Research 10 (2004) 13, pp. 355-368

Special Collection 3: Contemporary Research on European Fertility: Perspectives and Developments was produced as a surprise in honor of Jan M. Hoem on his 65th birthday. The authors who have contributed to this special Volume presented their papers at a working party at the Max Planck Institute...

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Dissolution of unions in Europe: a comparative overview

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

order to find out to what extent patterns in Europe differ from those at the other side of the Atlantic. With a number of … to study. Nevertheless, a high degree of variation also exists within Europe; a number of Catholic countries in Southern … and Eastern Europe impress with particularly low levels of union dissolution. …

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