rate reflects several things. One is the high costs of living in Spain for an unskilled, often-undocumented, but also …Based on an analysis of the Spanish census and the January 1, 2005 municipal register and on exploratory fieldwork in … Catalonia, this paper combines ethnography and demography, in conjunction with current Spanish reunification law, to examine the …

Family members are uniquely situated to influence the decision-making of their kin in nearly every facet of life. We … examine the importance of social interactions in fertility outcomes by assessing family members’ scope of influence on their … fellow kin’s fertility behavior. With the unique KASS genealogical dataset from eight countries in Europe, we study the …

intentions, research almost neglects dyadic family desires. Prior micro level studies have basically ignored the dyadic nature of … fertility intentions. This study uses survey data from 2.793 couples of the German „Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and … quality in particular. The results show that high relationship quality leads to a positive impact on congruent fertility …

This paper studies the short-term fertility intentions of women and men and their subsequent behavior. On the one hand …, the predictive strength of fertility intentions is of interest. On the other hand, the most important determinants that … inhibit or enable the realization of fertility intentions are analyzed. Data from the first three waves of the German Family …

This paper proposes procedures for estimating age-status-specific demographic rates to ensure that the projected … summary measures of marriage/union formation and dissolution and marital and non-marital fertility in the future years are … achieved consistently. The procedures proposed in this paper can be applied in both macro and micro models for family household …

to provide some fresh insights into the effect of macro-level changes on micro-level processes involving the family. In … this pilot study, we take our first step towards analysing the impact of developing urban-industrial life on the family … system in the northern German city of Rostock. A variety of quantitative approaches are employed to capture long-term changes …

I use the Survey of Income and Program Participation (N = 16,452) to measure trends in marital dissolution rates for U ….S. women by education level. In marriage cohorts from the mid-1970s to the 1990s, marital dissolution rates fell among women … trend began in the mid-1970s and is not explained by recent increases in women's overall educational attainment, nor by …