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Reconciling studies of men’s gender attitudes and fertility
Goldscheider, Frances; Oláh, Livia Sz.; Puur, Allan - In: Demographic Research 22 (2010) 8, pp. 189-198
A reflexion by Westoff and Higgins (2009) in response to a study by Puur, Oláh, Tazi-Preve and Dorbritz (2008) has been recently published in this journal. Both articles addressed the relationship between men’s gender attitudes and fertility, using different datasets and quite different...
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Gender equality and fertility intentions revisited
Miettinen, Anneli; Basten, Stuart; Rotkirch, Anna - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 20, pp. 469-496
, intentions to have many (3 or more) children, and high personal fertility ideals among low-parity men and women. Gender equality …
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Gender Preferences for Children in Europe
Hank, Karsten; Kohler, Hans-Peter - In: Demographic Research 2 (2000) 1
Family Surveys are used to compare 17 European countries with respect to their gender preferences for children. Despite … explaining different fertility levels, are not related to a specific gender of children, we argue that cultural factors are of …
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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...
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Relationships between men´s gender attitudes and fertility
Westoff, Charles F.; Higgins, Jenny - In: Demographic Research 21 (2009) 3, pp. 65-74
eight European countries, men with egalitarian gender attitudes both desired and had more children than men with more …
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Regional child care availability and fertility decisions in Spain
Baizan, Pau - In: Demographic Research 21 (2009) 27, pp. 803-842
In this paper I explore two hypotheses: (1) Formal childcare availability for children under 3 has a positive effect on …
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Gender roles and values of children: Childless Couples in East and West Germany
Henz, Ursula - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 39, pp. 1451-1500
examines the values of children of East and West-German childless men and women living with a partner. Based on the survey … and a cost dimension of the values of children, and for West-German women an additional dimension of opportunity costs …. Although East and West-German men and women differed in their values of children, hypotheses about the higher affective value …
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Should governments in Europe be more aggressive in pushing for gender equality to raise fertility? The second "YES"
Oláh, Livia Sz. - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 9, pp. 217-224
This paper is based on my contribution to a debate, organized by MPIDR, on the question displayed in the title above. I was asked to present arguments for the "yes"-response (together with Laurent Toulemon, and arguing against the "no"-side represented by Gerda Neyer and Dimiter Philipov). As...
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A gender perspective on preferences for marriage among cohabitating couples
Reneflot, Anne - In: Demographic Research 15 (2006) 10, pp. 311-328
This paper addresses the sex differences in cohabiters’ marriage preferences, which have received very little attention in the family literature. According to Norwegian survey data from 1996, cohabiting men are more hesitant to marry than cohabiting women. For example, childless male...
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Cohabitation and children's living arrangements
Kennedy, Sheela; Bumpass, Larry L. - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 47, pp. 1663-1692
continues to transform children’s family lives, as children are increasingly likely to be born to a cohabiting mother (18 …-fifths of all children spend some time in a cohabiting family by age 12. Because of substantial missing data in the 2002 NSFG …
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