During recent decades fertility in Sweden has evolved in tandem with the business cycle. Supported by social policies … women and men and for Swedish- and foreign-born people in Sweden. We use a combination of Labor Force Survey data on …

determinants of these events are analysed multivariately using longitudinal data on couples from population registers in Sweden …

This is the second of two companion papers addressing the association between educational attainment and fertility for … ultimate fertility decreases somewhat with an increasing educational level, but its dependence on the field of education is … ultimate fertility, and educational groups with much childlessness have relatively low ultimate fertility. In particular, women …

This article studies childbearing dynamics by labor-market status of co-residing parents in Sweden. We apply event …-market status with childbearing in Sweden differ between women and men and by country of origin. We find that the patterns of …

from Finland and Sweden (1971-1999) that provide us with the opportunity to compare childbearing dynamics and possible … underlying sex preferences among natives and national minorities, namely Finnish-born immigrants in Sweden and members of the … in child-sex specific fertility behavior of two-child mothers in 1981-1999. For Finland, we observe a continuous boy …

histories of an entire cohort of women born in Sweden (about a quarter-million individuals). This allows us to operate with a …

In Sweden, parents receive a parental-leave allowance of a high percentage (currently 80%) of their pre-birth salary …

Using detailed data on period and cohort fertility in four European countries, this paper discusses various indicators … of period fertility, including indicators adjusted for changes in fertility timing. Empirical analysis focuses on the … comparison of cohort fertility and corresponding indicators of period fertility; particular attention is paid to the periods of …