entirely nonparametric. Furthermore, the data enable us to compare life expectancy in eastern and western Germany conditional … find similar values for East and West. Our analysis contributes to the literature in several aspects. First, Germany is … Germany may provide some interesting insights for transformation countries. …

one daughter is generally favoured, there is no evidence for a behaviourally relevant gender preference in Germany, when …

Similar to other Eastern European countries, East Germany experienced a rapid decline in period fertility rates after … fertility behavior in East and West Germany. Secondly, we use data from the German micro-census to analyze the fertility …

Germany and Sweden. Our results show a significant presence of correlated unobserved factors that affect both partnership … Sweden than in Germany, in particular for cohabitation. …

impact of the extended family on the migrant’s decision to leave Cameroon for Germany. Migrants do not necessarily set out to …

The aim of this paper is to provide insights into third-birth dynamics in West Germany and Norway. Since the third … Germany, and how can they be explained? Which factors have a similar influence on Norwegian and West German two-child mothers … and their further fertility? We believe that a comparison of third-birth behavior between Norway and West Germany is of …

pattern of exceptional longevity in Germany by place of birth and place of death. We used a large dataset of exceptional … longevity that covered all recorded individuals who reached the age of 105 in Germany in the period 1991 to 2002 (N: 1,339). Our … research results show that, even in Germany, with its troubled 20th-century past, most of the semi-supercentenarians reached …

childcare are strikingly different in France than in Western Germany, reflecting long-standing policy orientations. Attitudes …