Education, gender, and cohort fertility in the Nordic countries

M Jalovaara, G Neyer, G Andersson, J Dahlberg… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Systematic comparisons of fertility developments based on education, gender and country
context are rare. Using harmonized register data, we compare cohort total fertility and …

Parity disparity: Educational differences in Nordic fertility across parities and number of reproductive partners

M Jalovaara, L Andersson, A Miettinen - Population Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Most research on trends in socio-economic fertility differences has focused on cohort total
fertility and on women. This study aimed to analyse how cohort trends in parity-specific …

Less partnering, less children, or both? Analysis of the drivers of first birth decline in Finland since 2010

J Hellstrand, J Nisén, M Myrskylä - European Journal of Population, 2022 - Springer
In the 2010s, fertility has declined in the Nordic countries, most strikingly in Finland, and first
births drive the decline. It remains unclear whether this decline results from decreased …

High income men have high value as long-term mates in the US: Personal income and the probability of marriage, divorce, and childbearing in the US

RL Hopcroft - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
Using data from the first Census data set that includes complete measures of male biological
fertility for a large-scale probability sample of the US population (the 2014 wave of the Study …

Social class and fertility: A long-run analysis of Southern Sweden, 1922–2015

M Dribe, CD Smith - Population Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines social class differences in fertility, using longitudinal micro-level data
for a regional sample in Sweden, 1922–2015. Using discrete-time event history models, we …

Desired fertility and educational aspirations: Adolescent goals in rapidly changing social contexts

M Alcaraz, SR Hayford, JE Glick - Journal of Marriage and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This article analyzes the relationship between educational aspirations and fertility
aspirations early in the life course in three different settings. Background The negative …

Less is more? Repartnering and completed cohort fertility in Finland

L Andersson, M Jalovaara, C Uggla, J Saarela - Demography, 2022 - read.dukeupress.edu
An extensive literature theorizes the role of repartnering for cohort fertility and whether union
dissolution can be an engine for fertility. A large share of higher order unions are nonmarital …

Education and fertility in Europe in the last decade: A review of the literature

S Vasireddy, A Berrington, B Kuang… - Comparative Population …, 2023 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
This paper reviews research on education and childbearing in Europe over the last decade.
Early demographic research attributed declining fertility in advanced economies in the …

Education and Fertility: A Review of Recent Research in Europe

S Vasireddy, A Berrington… - Comparative …, 2023 - comparativepopulationstudies.de
This paper reviews research on education and childbearing in Europe over the last decade.
Early demographic research attributed declining fertility in advanced economies in the …

How family background shapes the relationship between human capital and fertility

F Kramarz, O Rosenqvist, ON Skans - Journal of Population Economics, 2023 - Springer
Many previous studies have shown that skilled and educated women have fewer children.
By comparing twins and close siblings in Swedish register data, we show that the negative …