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Tracking the Effects of Parenthood on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Hungary

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 …

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The sibsize revolution in an international context: Declining social disparities in the number of siblings in 26 countries

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 …

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The Long-Term Costs of Family Trajectories: Women’s Later-Life Employment and Earnings Across Europe

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 …

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The nexus between education and fertility in six European countries

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, …

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The more the merrier? The causal effect of high fertility on later-life loneliness in eastern europe

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 …

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The labour division of Italian couples after a birth: assessing the effect of unobserved heterogeneity

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 …

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‘The fourth commandment effect’: church attendance and intergenerational support in late parent–child relationships

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 …

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The diversity of pathways to childlessness in the Czech Republic: The union histories of childless men and women

Klímová Chaloupková, J. & Hašková, H. (2020). Advances in Life Course Research, 46, 100363 10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100363

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Social support networks and loneliness of Polish migrants in the Netherlands

Djundeva, M. & Ellwardt, L. (2020). Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(7), 1281-1300 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1597691

While the concept of transnationalism has gained widespread popularity among scholars as a way to describe immigrants’ longterm maintenance of cross-border ties, few studies have empirically addressed how social networks that connect migrants to each other and to nonmigrants in communities of origin are also associated with migrants’ well-being. We examined the extent to which social support networks of Polish …

The Families of Poles in the Netherlands

Self-employment as a work-and-family reconciliation strategy? Evidence from Poland

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 …

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Patterns of spatial proximity and the timing and spacing of bearing children

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 …

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Partnership dynamics among immigrants and their descendants in four European countries

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 …

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Partners’ Educational Characteristics and Fertility: Disentangling the Effects of Earning Potential and Unemployment Risk on Second Births

Trimarchi, A. & Van Bavel, J. (2020). European Journal of Population, 36(3), 439-464 10.1007/s10680-019-09537-w

This study investigates the link between the educational characteristics of partners in heterosexual relationships and their transition to second births, accounting for the selection into parenthood by fitting multi-level event history models. We compare the fertility of Beckerian unions characterized by gender-role specialization with the fertility of dual-earner couples, characterized by the pooling of incomes. Focusing on the economic aspect …

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Non-marital childbearing of migrants and their descendants: Russians in Estonia compared with Russians in Russia and Estonians:

Sakkeus, L., Abuladze, L., Rahnu, L., & Puur, A. (2020). Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, N° 4(4), 69-113 10.3917/receo1.504.0069

Pour expliquer l’émergence de comportements alternatifs en matière de famille et de fécondité, l’article mobilise des cadres explicatifs concurrents : rapport à la modernité et position sociale défavorisée. À partir des données recueillies dans le cadre de l’enquête sur les générations et les rapports de genre dans les deux pays (2004-2005), notamment auprès des femmes nées entre 1924 et 1986, …

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Men’s First Partnership Formation in Four Former State-socialist Countries during the Transition Period

Mureşan, C. & Oláh Sz., L. (2020). Romanian Journal of Population Studies, 13(2), 35-52 10.24193/RJPS.2019.2.03

Non-marital cohabitation has become increasingly common in advanced societies, although somewhat less so in Central-Eastern Europe in the period immediately following the fall of state socialism. In this paper we focus on changes in men’s first partnership patterns in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania between the 1980s and early 2000s, specifically addressing gender differences with respect to the effects of …

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Measuring Life Course Complexity with Dynamic Sequence Analysis

Pelletier, D., Bignami-Van Assche, S., & Simard-Gendron, A. (2020). Social Indicators Research, 152(3), 1127-1151 10.1007/s11205-020-02464-y

The transformation of life courses in industrialized countries since the mid-twentieth century can be analyzed through the lens of life course complexity, a function of the number of transitions or states experienced by individuals over a given time span. Life course complexity is often measured with composite indices in a static sequence analysis framework (i.e. over a single age interval), …

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Grandparental Childcare for Biological, Adopted, and Step-Offspring: Findings From Cross-National Surveys

Tanskanen, A., Danielsbacka, M., & Rotkirch, A. (2020). Evolutionary Psychology, 18(1), 1474704920907894 10.1177/1474704920907894

Based on kin selection theory, amounts of grandparental investment should reflect the probability to share common genes with offspring. Adoption may represent a special case, however, yet grandparental investment in adopted children has previously been both theoretically misconstrued and little investigated. Here, we study for the first time how grandparental childcare provision is distributed between biological, adopted, and step-offspring. Using …

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Gendered Effects of Home-Based Work on Parents’ Capability to Balance Work with Non-work: Two Countries with Different Models of Division of Labour Compared

Kurowska, A. (2020). Social Indicators Research, 151(2), 405-425 10.1007/s11205-018-2034-9

Abstract This paper explores gendered impact of home-based work (HBW) on the capability to balance work with non-work in double-earner families with dependent children in two countries with distinct models of division of labour: Poland and Sweden. At first, I critically engage with the WLB conceptualization in HBW studies and try to address identified gaps. Driving from the theoretical concept …

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Gender preferences and fertility: Investigating the case of Turkish immigrants in Germany

Ezdi, S. & Baş, A. (2020). Demographic Research, 43, 59-96 10.4054/DemRes.2020.43.3

BACKGROUND A plethora of emergent literature is investigating the prevalence of gender preferences among immigrant communities in Western industrialized countries. Such research not only sheds light on fertility preferences of immigrants but also unearths immigrant assimilation versus persistence processes. Germany has a long history of immigration but has maintained an ethnic assimilationist regime. Turkish immigrants form the largest immigrant community …

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From Living Apart to Living Together: Do Children Born before the Current Partnership Matter?

Van der Wiel, R., Mulder, C., & De Valk, H. (2020). Comparative Population Studies, 45 10.12765/CPoS-2020-07

This study examines the association between having children born before the current partnership and women’s and men’s likelihood of transitioning from living apart together (LAT) to co-residing. LAT partnerships are common among individuals with pre-partnership children, but have so far been under-researched. Our study not only focuses on those in LAT relations, but also takes the different pathways to becoming …

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