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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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