Gender equity theories of fertility broadly predict that the lowest fertility in high-income
settings will be seen in women facing a 'dual burden'of both paid and unpaid labour …

Factors related to fertility such as population size, composition and growth rate may
influence a community's ability to adapt to climate change, particularly in poor countries. This …

John Goldthorpe is one of Britain's most eminent sociologists and a strong advocate of
quantitative sociology. In this concise and accessible book, he provides a new rationale for …

Stress and strain among adolescents have been investigated and discussed largely within
three separate disciplines: mental health, where the focus has been on the negative effects …

The extent to which siblings resemble each other measures the omnibus impact of family
background on life chances. We study sibling similarity in cognitive skills, school grades …

INCREASES IN DIVORCE and cohabitation are among the most prominent behavioral
changes to affect the family over the past few decades. Both behaviors have received …

Recent studies show that temporary workers postpone family formation transitions, but it
remains unclear whether this effect is due to the lower income or the stronger perceptions of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a counter-narrative to accounts of specific
species extinction. The authors place humanity's ways of organising at the core and …

While social science has substantially documented the individual experience of
unemployment, less is known about the role of contextual variables. One contextual factor …

Over the past 25 years, technological improvements that have made the collection,
transmission, storage, and analysis of data significantly easier and more cost efficient have …