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@article{Hoem2011a,
  author = {Hoem, Jan M. and Muresan, Cornelia},
  title = {The Role of Consensual Unions in Romanian Total Fertility},
  year = {2011},
  journal = {Stockholm research reports in demography},
  volume = {16},
  number = {16},
  pages = {1-13},
  url = {http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/projects_publications/publications_1904/other_working_papers/the_role_of_consensual_unions_in_romanian_total_fertility_4544.htm},
  timestamp = {15.05.2012},
  owner = {Brunne},
  abstract = {The purpose of the present paper is to complete previous analyses of duration-based Total Fertility Rates specific for union types (TUFRs) as contained in the Romanian Generations and Gender Survey. The present analysis covers the period 1965-2005, going back twenty more years than before. It reproduces negative educational gradients in fertility, now for women in consensual unions and in direct marriages, separately. Partnered Romanian women have a high duration-based Total Fertility Rate even when they are enrolled in education. For women with a low educational attainment we find that the total fertility in marital and in cohabitational unions are largely of the same size order. The Total Fertility Rate for a consensual union that is converted into a marriage appears as a contribution from the cohabitational period added to a separate contribution from the marital period.}
}