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Fertility Desires of Childless Poles: Which Childbearing Motives Matter for Men and Women?

Mynarska, M. & Rytel, J. (2020). Journal of Family Issues, 41(1), 7-32 10.1177/0192513X19868257

In modern societies, a growing number of people choose to remain childless. As childlessness has fundamental consequences for individuals and societies, it is of paramount importance to understand this choice. We investigate which childbearing motives are related to low-fertility desire of Poles, deterring them from wanting to have children? We look at the motivations of 939 nulliparous men and women, …

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Evaluating interviewer manipulation in the new round of the Generations and Gender Survey

Paglino, E. & Emery, T. (2020). Demographic Research, 43, 1461-1494 10.4054/DemRes.2020.43.50

BACKGROUND Past research has criticized the quality of the Generations and Gender Survey retrospective fertility and partnership histories. For example, fatigue and learning effects were deemed responsible for distortions in the Generations and Gender Survey in Germany. OBJECTIVE We assess the quality of the Generations and Gender Survey for Belarus (GGS-BL) in 2017 to assess whether the new centralized fieldwork …

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Estimating progress towards meeting women’s contraceptive needs in 185 countries: A Bayesian hierarchical modelling study

Kantorová, V., Wheldon, M., Ueffing, P., & Dasgupta, A. (2020). PLOS Medicine, 17(2), e1003026 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003026

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Écarts de fécondité en fonction du niveau d’instruction : le rôle de la religion en Grande-Bretagne et en France:

Peri-Rotem, N. (2020). Population, Vol. 75(1), 9-38 10.3917/popu.2001.0009

La fécondité baisse et l’infécondité augmente généralement avec le niveau d’instruction des femmes. On ne sait pas vraiment si un niveau d’études supérieures implique un comportement reproductif identique chez les femmes selon les confessions et les pratiques religieuses. Cette étude utilise des données issues de l’Enquête par panel auprès des ménages britanniques (BHPS) et du volet français de l’enquête Generations …

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Early Family Life Course Standardization in Sweden: The Role of Compositional Change

Van Winkle, Z. (2020). European Journal of Population, 36(4), 765-798 10.1007/s10680-019-09551-y

Abstract The diversity of early family life courses is thought to have increased, although empirical evidence is mixed. Less standardized family formation is attributed to compositional changes in educational attainment, labour market participation, and childhood living conditions. I investigate whether and why family trajectories have become more or less standardized across birth cohorts in Sweden. I combine sequence metrics with …

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Cutting fertility? Effects of cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Halla, M., Mayr, H., Pruckner, G., & García-Gómez, P. (2020). Journal of Health Economics, 72, 102325 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102325

Despite the growing incidence of cesarean deliveries (CDs), procedure costs and benefits continue to be controversially discussed. In this study, we identify the effects of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply by exploiting the fact that obstetricians are less likely to undertake CDs on weekends and public holidays and have a greater incentive to perform them on Fridays …

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Cash support vs. tax incentives: The differential impact of policy interventions on third births in contemporary Hungary

Spéder, Z., Murinkó, L., & Oláh, L. (2020). Population Studies, 74(1), 39-54 10.1080/00324728.2019.1694165

Following steep falls in birth rates in Central and Eastern European countries during the economic and institutional restructuring of the early 1990s, governments made substantial efforts to stop or at least reduce the fertility decline. In Hungary, parents with three or more children could benefit from specific new policy measures: the flat-rate child-rearing support paid from the youngest child’s third …

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Loneliness in Children Adapting to Dual Family Life

(2020). Life Course Research and Social Policies (pp. 195-213) Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-44575-1_10

AbstractChildren often live in two households after their parents break up, which may affect their development. We investigate feelings of loneliness among children of separated parents using two alternative hypotheses. The first assumes that children experience “dual family life” as offering opportunities or a richer source of support because of the increased number of close relatives involved in their life, …

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Welfare Regimes and Fertility in Second Unions

Fernández Soto, M., Fostik, A., & Laplante, B. (2020). In R. Schoen (Ed.), Analyzing Contemporary Fertility (pp. 199-235) Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-48519-1_9

One recent line of research points to the importance of births occurring after the dissolution of the first union for fertility. Another line of established research has shown that countries with different welfare regimes implement policies that may help or hinder family formation. In this chapter, we combine these two lines and look at the importance of births occurring into …

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Gray Divorce and Social and Emotional Loneliness

Högnäs, R. (2020). In D. Mortelmans (Ed.), Divorce in Europe (pp. 147-165) Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-25838-2_7

Abstract Research consistently shows an association between marriage and divorce and long-term health, including mental health outcomes linked to loneliness and depression. And, recent evidence suggests that divorce at midlife and older, or so-called “gray divorce” has increased while divorce at younger ages has decreased. Using data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS), this chapter explores the association between …

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Demographic Profile of Syrians in Austria

Buber-Ennser, I., Rengs, B., Kohlenberger, J., & Zeman, K. (2020). In E. Carlson & N. Williams (Eds.), Comparative Demography of the Syrian Diaspora: European and Middle Eastern Destinations (pp. 139-163) Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-24451-4_7

Migration is an important issue for Austria, a central European country with 8.8 million inhabitants in 2018. Roughly 47,000 persons born in Syria were residing in Austria at the beginning of that year, most of them arriving after 2014. This chapter provides insights on the Syrian population in Austria, including age, gender, legal status, education, marital status, fertility, previous labor …

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Current and future contributions of the Generations and Gender Programme to lifecourse research

Fadel, L., Emery, T., & Gauthier, A. (2020). In J. Falkingham, M. Evandrou, & A. Vlachantoni (Eds.), Handbook on Demographic Change and the Lifecourse (pp. 57-68) Edward Elgar Publishing 10.4337/9781788974875.00012

In contemporary European societies, individuals’ lifecourses and family structures are constantly changing and becoming less standardized. Cross-nationally comparative and longitudinal data provide unique opportunities to study how societal processes influence demographic choice. The Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) is a social science research infrastructure that provides panel data on the whole lifecourse of 280,000 individuals from more than 20 European …

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Multi-Partner Fertility in Europe and the United States

Thomson, E., Gray, E., & Carlson, M. (2020). In R. Schoen (Ed.), Analyzing Contemporary Fertility (pp. 173-198) Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-48519-1_8

In this chapter, we investigate what can be termed multi-partner fertility, i.e., the birth rate among women at risk of having a child with a new partner. We used data from 14 European countries and the United States, all with high-quality birth and union histories. We divided a woman’s exposure to the birth risk into three types – single spells …

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The Negative Female Educational Gradient of Union Dissolution: Towards an Explanation in Six European Countries

Van Damme, M. (2020). In D. Mortelmans (Ed.), Divorce in Europe (pp. 93-122) Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-25838-2_5

Abstract How can we explain that, nowadays, lower educated women are more likely to separate than higher educated women are? I formulate hypotheses to explain this based on Levinger’s (J Marriage Family 27(1):19–28, 1965; J Soc Issues 32(1):21–47, 1976; Handbook of interpersonal commitment and relationship stability. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 1999) social exchange theory on ‘attractions’ and ‘barriers’ and …

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The Role of Discretization of Continuous Variables in Socioeconomic Classification Models on the Example of Logistic Regression Models and Artificial Neural Networks

Grzenda, W. (2020). In K. Jajuga, J. Batóg, & M. Walesiak (Eds.), Classification and Data Analysis (pp. 35-51) Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-52348-0_3

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Women’s pathways to childlessness in Lithuania

Tretjakova, G. (2020). Social Sciences Bulletin, 7-21

The article explores pathways to childlessness among two generations of women in Lithuania. The authors employ both quantitative and qualitative research methods. For the quantitative part, in order to assess the demographic context of childlessness in Lithuania compared to other European countries the authors analyzed data from Human Fertility Database (HFD) and Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). The authorsí qualitative …

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Vzdělání a přechod k otcovství v České republice: reflexe dvou společenských kontextů

Šťastná, A. & Kyzlinková, R. (2019). Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, 51(4) 10.31577/sociologia.2019.51.4.18

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Union Histories of Dissolution: What Can They Say About Childlessness?

Hart, R. (2019). European Journal of Population, 35(1), 101-131 10.1007/s10680-018-9464-6

Abstract This study investigates how the association between union dissolution and childlessness depends on life course context. Data on union histories and fertility are taken from the Norwegian GGS. To observe union histories up to age 45, I include men and women born 1927–1962. I further condition on having experienced at least one union dissolution before age 45, giving a …

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Une étude comparative de l’impact de la religiosité et de l’égalité des genres sur les intentions en matière de fécondité et leurs réalisations

Bein, C., Gauthier, A., & Mynarska, M. (2019). Cahiers de recherche sociologique(63), 185-220 10.7202/1055724ar

Le rôle de la religiosité et du genre dans l’élaboration des décisions en matière de fécondité a fait l’objet de nombreuses études ces dernières années. Cette littérature a toutefois mis en évidence une énigme intéressante. Alors que la religiosité a un effet positif sur la fécondité, en partie grâce à la promotion des rôles sexospécifiques traditionnels, l’égalité des sexes s’avère …

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The Social Stratification of Choice in the Transition to Adulthood

Billari, F., Hiekel, N., & Liefbroer, A. (2019). European Sociological Review, 35(5), 599-615 10.1093/esr/jcz025

The occurrence and timing of major demographic decisions in the transition to adulthood is strongly stratified, with young adults with a high socio-economic status (SES) background usually experiencing many of these events later than young adults with a low SES background. To explain this social stratification, we outline a theoretical framework in which social stratification affects choice in the transition …

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