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Settlement size and fertility in the Nordic countries
Kulu, Hill; Vikat, Andres; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006
There is a growing body of literature that looks at the causes of below-replacement fertility in developed countries. While the variation in childbearing patterns across countries and between socio-economic groups within a country has been studied in detail, little is known about the differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163283
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The impact of female employment on fertility in Dakar (Senegal) and Lomé (Togo)
Béguy, Donatien - In: Demographic Research 20 (2009) 7, pp. 97-128
This paper investigates the impact of female employment on fertility in two urban contexts in sub-Saharan Africa: Dakar (Senegal) and Lomé (Togo). The hypothesis that wage employment and maternal obligations are incompatible seems to be corroborated in Lomé, where women are likely to consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818152
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Fertility differences by housing type
Kulu, Hill; Vikat, Andres - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 26, pp. 775-802
This study examines fertility variation across housing types and childbearing patterns after housing changes. While the effect of family changes on housing choices has been studied in detail, little is known about childbearing patterns within various housing types, despite the fact that many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700032
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High fertility in city suburbs: compositional or contextual effects?
Kulu, Hill; Boyle, Paul J. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007
Fertility rates are known to be higher in city suburbs. One interpretation is that the suburban ‘context’ influences the behaviour of individuals who reside there while an alternative is that the ‘composition’ of the suburban population explains the higher fertility levels. Furthermore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700180
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The dangers of conditioning on the time of occurrence of one demographic process in the analysis of another
Hoem, Jan M. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013
Demographers and others often study the interaction between two types of individual-level behaviour, such as migration … and childbearing. Unfortunately, one can get estimation bias if one compares childbearing before and after migration from … data confined to migrants, say, as is sometimes done to see whether international migration disrupts fertility. Similar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010660302
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Migration and union dissolution in a changing socio-economic context
Magdalena MuszyÅ„ska; Kulu, Hill - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 27, pp. 803-820
Previous studies show that family migration is usually to the benefit of the man’s professional career and that it … examining the effect of family migration on union dissolution. We use the event-history data of two retrospective surveys from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005557957
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Family change and migration in the life course
Kulu, Hill; Milewski, Nadja - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 19, pp. 567-590
interrelations between the family and migration behaviour of individuals in industrialised countries. We first review the life …-course approach and previous research on the interplay between family change and migration. We then describe the contribution of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005557961
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Fertility differences by housing type: an effect of housing conditions or of selective moves?
Kulu, Hill; Vikat, Andres - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007
This study examines fertility variation across housing types and childbearing patterns after housing changes. While the effect of family changes on housing choices has been studied in detail, little is known about childbearing patterns within various housing types, despite the fact that many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818244
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Fertility and spatial mobility: evidence from Austria
Kulu, Hill - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2005
There is a growing body of literature looking at the interplay between an individual’s residential and other careers in the life-course. Previous research has mostly studied the impact of partnership and employment changes on spatial mobility. This paper focuses on the effect of childbearing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818272
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Examining the predictive value of fertility preferences among Ghanaian women
Kodzi, Ivy; Johnson, David; Casterline, John - In: Demographic Research 22 (2010) 30, pp. 965-984
Despite extensive research, doubts remain regarding the degree of correspondence between prior stated fertility preferences and subsequent fertility behavior. Preference instability is a factor that potentially undermines predictiveness. Furthermore, if other predictors of fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008584354