Assessing Short-Term Fertility Intentions and Their Realisation Using the Generations and Gender Survey: Pitfalls and Challenges
Brzozowska, Z. & Beaujouan, E. (2021). European Journal of Population, 37(2), 405-416 10.1007/s10680-020-09573-x
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Brzozowska, Z. & Beaujouan, E. (2021). European Journal of Population, 37(2), 405-416 10.1007/s10680-020-09573-x
Kridahl, L. & Duvander, A. (2021). Social Sciences, 10(5), 160 10.3390/socsci10050160
This study examines adult children’s propensity to provide personal care to older mothers and fathers. The theory of intergenerational solidarity facilitates the understanding of commitment and support between adult children and parents. Solidarity may depend on childhood events as well as the current situation, and we therefore focus on whether there was a parental breakup in childhood and the parent’s …
Kalmijn, M. & Leopold, T. (2021). American Sociological Review, 86(1), 1-34 10.1177/0003122420973982
This study contrasts adult and child perspectives on divorce and separation. Based on harmonized retrospective life history data from eight European countries, we study the risk of divorce and separation from the perspective of adult unions and the perspective of children born into these unions. The analysis connects adult and child perspectives, focusing on union cohort changes (1945 to 2005) …
Kraniauskien, S. (2021). Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania Generational Experiences Routledge
This chapter addresses the ways in which certain social and demographic processes describe the last Lithuanian Soviet generation (born in the late 1960s and 1970s). The primary focus is directed to the analysis of the demographic changes that took place in the life course of this generation during the period of transition to adulthood. It is essential to identify how …
Brons, M. (2021). In A. Liefbroer & M. Zoutewelle-Terovan (Eds.), Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons (pp. 17-34) Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-67345-1_2
Abstract The main objective of this chapter is to understand the link between parental socio-economic status (SES) and union formation and dissolution processes from a cross-national comparative perspective. According to the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) theory, it can be expected that the impact of parental background on these union dynamics differs across societal contexts. Integrated results from prior studies using …
Koops, J. (2021). In A. Liefbroer & M. Zoutewelle-Terovan (Eds.), Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons (pp. 35-59) Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-67345-1_3
Abstract Previous research has shown that parental as well as own socio-economic status (SES) influence nonmarital fertility. This chapter examines to what extent the effect of parental SES on partner status at first birth is mediated through own SES. Data from the Generations and Gender Survey, British Understanding Society Survey, Dutch Survey on Family Formation, American National Survey on Family …
Solaz, A. (2021). Population & Societies, 2(2), 1-4
Divorces and union dissolutions have become much more frequent in the last half-century, as has repartnering. What about people aged 50 and over? Using several data sources, Anne Solaz explains that these people have also been affected by this phenomenon, and examines differences in partnership trajectories between cohorts and between men and women in France.
Mynarska, M. (2021). Studia Psychologica: Theoria et praxis.(Special), 21–36
The article aims to evaluate how well the theory of planned behaviour (TPB; Ajzen, 1991) has been operationalized within the Generation and Gender Programme. In this project, the TPB has been applied as a theoretical framework for investigating childbearing intentions. According to the model, childbearing intentions are determined by attitudes towards having children, subjective norms concerning childbearing and perceived behavioural …
Ackert, M., Maglakelidze, E., Badurashvili, I., & Huber, S. (2020). Religions, 11(2), 57 10.3390/rel11020057
This study presents the validation of the short forms of Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) in Georgia. This country offers a unique Christian orthodox context with a long-lasting religious tradition and strong affiliation to churches. Translated short forms were administered in the years 2012 (CRS-5) and 2018 (CRSi-7). Participants reported on ideological, intellectual, and experiential aspects of their faith and …
Radó, M. (2020). Journal of Happiness Studies, 21(6), 2069-2094 10.1007/s10902-019-00166-y
The low perceived subjective well-being of potential parents has been put forward as an explanation for the low fertility rates in developed countries. Accordingly, research about the effect of parenthood on life satisfaction is increasing, although the related studies are mostly restricted to western countries. The case of Hungary represents a great opportunity to extend the scope of the related …
Präg, P., Choi, S., & Monden, C. (2020). Demographic Research, 43, 461-500 10.4054/DemRes.2020.43.17
BACKGROUND One’s number of siblings is an important determinant of many life outcomes, such as educational attainment. In the last century the United States has experienced a ‘sibsize revolution’, in which sibship sizes declined, and which led to a convergence in family circumstances for children. Did this happen in other countries as well? OBJECTIVE This study examines the development of …
Muller, J., Hiekel, N., & Liefbroer, A. (2020). Demography, 57(3), 1007-1034 10.1007/s13524-020-00874-8
Abstract The “motherhood earnings penalty” is a well-established finding in many Western countries. However, a divide between mothers and nonmothers might oversimplify reality given that the family life course has diversified over the last decades. In addition, whether family choices have consequences for women’s employment and earnings in later life is not well known, particularly in a comparative perspective. Using …
Impicciatore, R. & Tomatis, F. (2020). Genus, 76(1), 35 10.1186/s41118-020-00104-4
Abstract Given the many linkages between education and family behaviour, the expansion of higher education especially among women in recent decades may have important consequences for fertility in Europe. This is a crucial factor in both the New Home Economics (NHE) theory and the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) that predict a negative association between fertility and education. However, more recently, …
Van Den Broek, T. & Tosi, M. (2020). Social Indicators Research, 149(2), 733-748 10.1007/s11205-019-02254-1
Abstract Levels of later-life loneliness are high in Eastern Europe. We assess whether having more children is protective against later-life loneliness for Eastern-European mothers and fathers. Drawing on Generations and Gender Surveys data of 25,479 parents aged 50–80 from eight Eastern-European countries, we adopt an instrumental approach exploiting parents’ preference for mixed-sex offspring to estimate the causal effect of having …
Campolo, M., Di Pino, A., & Rizzi, E. (2020). Journal of Population Research, 37(2), 107-137 10.1007/s12546-020-09241-1
The results of previous studies on the effect of childbearing on both parents’ paid and unpaid work suffer from the difficulty related to the specification of latent variables that influence the relationship between reproductive behaviour of the couple and working activity. The aim of this study is to estimate the effect of transition to parenthood on the partners’ division of …
Tosi, M. & Oncini, F. (2020). European Societies, 22(1), 26-46 10.1080/14616696.2018.1547837
We examine whether church attendance is related to intergenerational support from children to older parents in Italy. First, we focus on the role of church attendance on different forms of assistance, by distinguishing between practical support and personal assistance. Second, we attempt to disentangle the role of church attendance from that of traditionalism. We analyse data from the ISTAT survey …
Klímová Chaloupková, J. & Hašková, H. (2020). Advances in Life Course Research, 46, 100363 10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100363
Matysiak, A. & Mynarska, M. (2020). Advances in Life Course Research, 45, 100329 10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100329
As self-employment offers greater flexibility compared to wage and salary contracts, women might choose it to achieve a better work-family balance. Past empirical research on this topic yielded equivocal results, however. We add to this discussion and provide evidence for Poland. Public support for working parents in Poland is relatively poor and women need to develop strategies in order to …
Mönkediek, B. (2020). Demographic Research, 42, 461-496 10.4054/DemRes.2020.42.16
BACKGROUND People’s demographic decision-making is embedded in regional cultural contexts that include regional patterns of family organization called family systems. Although previous research has shown that family systems explain regional variation in fertility, it has focused mainly on historical or developing societies. Processes of modernization have led to substantial changes in family structures and values and to an overhaul of …
Hannemann, T., Kulu, H., González‐Ferrer, A., Pailhé, A., Rahnu, L., & Puur, A. (2020). Population, Space and Place, 26(5), e2315 10.1002/psp.2315
Abstract This study investigates union formation and dissolution among immigrants and their descendants in four European countries with different migration histories and family patterns (United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Estonia). Although there is a growing body of literature on migrant families in Europe, there is still little comparative research on partnership dynamics among immigrants and their descendants. We apply event …