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Couples’ fertility differentials by education: do stepchildren make a difference?

Trimarchi, A. & Toulemon, L. (2025). Rivista Italiana di Economia Demografia e Statistica, 91-102 10.71014/sieds.v79i1.301

A growing number of studies has explored both partners’ education as determinant of couples’ fertility, acknowledging the fact that the decision to have a child is couple based. Still, those studies have solely focused on children born to the couple, without considering stepchildren. As a result, in studying couples’ birth rates by educational pairing, previous studies did not account for …

Educational Pairings Fertility GGS Stepchildren

Fertility Intentions Across Five Decades in Norway

Dommermuth, L., Lyngstad, T., & Wiik, K. (2025). Comparative Population Studies, 50 10.12765/CPoS-2025-09

Fertility intentions are strong predictors of future childbearing at both individual and aggregate levels, reflecting cultural norms and values around family formation and childbearing. Given the recent decline in fertility across Western industrialized societies, research on fertility intentions has become increasingly important. In particular, falling birth rates in the Nordic countries − traditionally held up as exemplars of modern family …

Desired family size Fertility Fertility intentions GGS Norway Social change

Education and Intended Number of Children in Germany, Moldova and Norway: An International Comparison Using FReDA and GGS-II-data

Krapf, S., Buber-Ennser, I., & Bujard, M. (2023). Comparative Population Studies, 48 10.12765/CPoS-2023-22

In this study, we compare the intended number of children in Germany, Moldova and Norway in 2020 and 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a first step, we compare the intended number of children (including children born) in the newly available Generations and Gender Survey round 2 (GGS-II) and the German FReDA-GGS data. In a second step, we estimate the …

Educational differences Fertility GGS Generation and Gender Survey Intended family size Parity intentions

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