How many children do couples have when they break up? Educational stratification in parity at separation
Zilincikova, Z., Yastrebov, G., & Leopold, T. (2025). Population Studies, 1-12 10.1080/00324728.2025.2462288
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Zilincikova, Z., Yastrebov, G., & Leopold, T. (2025). Population Studies, 1-12 10.1080/00324728.2025.2462288
Vidal, S. & Van Damme, M. (2024). Journal of Marriage and Family, 86(2), 369-390 10.1111/jomf.12972
Abstract Objective Changes in family dynamics due to increased union instability are gathering scholarly attention. Against this backdrop, we asked: How do family life courses evolve after the dissolution of a first union? And, how do these processes vary across socio‐historical contexts? Method We deployed sequence and cluster analysis on women's combined relationship and fertility trajectories over 120 months after …
Zimmermann, O., Konietzka, D., & Deppe, M. (2024). Population Studies, 1-16 10.1080/00324728.2024.2376060
Cukrowska-Torzewska, E. & Grabowska, M. (2023). Demographic research, 48(8), 203-232 10.4054/DemRes.2023.48.8
BACKGROUND The preference for having children of a particular sex may be reflected in fertility behavior. For example, parents who want to have a son may be more likely to have another child if their firstborn child is female or if they have two female children. They may also speed up the conception, resulting in a faster progression to the …
Mogi, R., Esteve, A., & Skirbekk, V. (2022). European Journal of Population, 38(5), 1333-1346 10.1007/s10680-022-09644-1
The Spanish total fertility rate declined from 2.8 to below 1.4 children per woman from 1975 to 2020. Spain is categorized as a “lowest-low fertility” country. Although there have been many attempts to explain the Spanish fertility decline, there has been an insufficient focus been given to religion. This brief report aims to analyse how religious affiliation, particularly being Catholics, …
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) …
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 …
Recksiedler, C. & Bernardi, L. (2019). Journal of Family Issues, 40(17) 10.1177/0192513x19860175
Lone Mothers’ Repartnering Trajectories and Health: Does the Welfare Context Matter? We examined the relationship between lone mothers’ repartnering and health in three welfare contexts: the dual-earner, market-oriented, and general family policy model. Drawing on the resources and crisis models, we applied mixture modelling for spell data of the Harmonized Histories dataset. We uncovered six distinct repartnering trajectories that varied …
Mikolai, J., Berrington, A., & Perelli-Harris, B. (2018). Demographic Research, 39, 753-794 10.4054/DemRes.2018.39.27
BACKGROUND Previous research has shown that partnership status at first birth is associated with education across Europe and the United States. Most research has indicated that first births within cohabitation have a negative educational gradient. However, the pathway to a first birth in different partnership types can be complex and may vary across countries. OBJECTIVE We study whether any educational …
Brons, M. & Härkönen, J. (2018). Journal of Marriage and Family, 80(2), 426-443 10.1111/jomf.12461
This is the first study to systematically analyze whether the association between parental education and family dissolution varies cross‐nationally and over time. The authors use meta‐analytic tools to study cross‐national variation between 17 countries with data from the Generations and Gender Study and Harmonized Histories. The association shows considerable cross‐national variation, but is positive in most countries. The association between …
Musick, K. & Michelmore, K. (2018). Demography, 55(4), 1389-1421 10.1007/s13524-018-0683-6
Abstract Increases in cohabitation, nonmarital childbearing, and partnership dissolution have reshaped the family landscape in most Western countries. The United States shares many features of family change common elsewhere, although it is exceptional in its high degree of union instability. In this study, we use the Harmonized Histories to provide a rich, descriptive account of union instability among couples who …
Bernardi, L., Mortelmans, D., & Larenza, O. (2018). In L. Bernardi & D. Mortelmans (Eds.), Lone Parenthood in the Life Course (pp. 1-26) Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-319-63295-7_1
The purpose of this book is to approach lone parenthood from a life course perspective. Its chapters address the interdependence of multiple life domains across individuals and between individuals and institutions, as well as the relevance of individual agency and historical context. This introduction describes the phenomenon of lone parenthood across Europe through an account of the changes in prevalence …
Holland, J. (2017). Demographic Research, 36, 609-626 10.4054/DemRes.2017.36.20
OBJECTIVE These descriptive findings extend Holland’s (2013) marriage typology by linking the timing of marriage, childbearing, and cohabitation, and apply it to a range of European countries and the United States. The meaning of marriage is organized around six ideal types: Direct Family-Forming, Post-Cohabitation Family-Forming, Conception-Related Legitimizing, Birth-Related Legitimizing, Reinforcing, and Capstone marriage. METHODS I present descriptive tabulations of data …
Schwanitz, K., Mulder, C., & Toulemon, L. (2017). Demographic Research, 37, 1975-2010 10.4054/DemRes.2017.37.63
Wood, J., Neels, K., & Vergauwen, J. (2016). Population Research and Policy Review, 35(3), 305-325 10.1007/s11113-016-9389-x
The extent to which mothers progress to a second child varies greatly between European countries. Although both institutional and economic context are believed to be partly responsible for these differences, available research on economic conditions and fertility mostly focuses on first births and studies on family policy and fertility have hitherto insufficiently addressed population heterogeneity. Combining longitudinal microdata from the …
Troitskaia, I., Avdeev, A., Badurashvili, I., Kapanadze, E., & Tretjaküva, V. (2009). Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, 40(3-4), 241-272 10.4074/S0338059909003088