Early life experiences are likely to be important for the formation of preferences. Religiosity is a key dimension of preferences, affecting many economic outcomes. This paper examines the effect of college major on religiosity, and the converse effect of religiosity on college major, using...

This paper contributes to the comparative studies of population policies and discourses with the intention of finding such teleologically not biased interpretative frameworks in which both Western" and "Eastern" histories can be linked to each other without setting up Eurocentric or West centric...

The main focus of our project was the comparative study of labour migration in a European Union country (Finland), an EU accessing country (Hungary) and a major non-EU country (Russia) in order to reveal and analyse the causes and the geographic and social mechanisms of labour migration into...

In the beginning of the period under discussion each of the countries in the region was either following European patterns of emigration or was actually serving as a migratory target (for instance in the case of Moldova). In the 1970s and 1980s (in other words well before the actual collapse of...

The political language of radical nationalism, combined with the logic of justice as non-domination, has become hegemonic in the Hungarian press. The structural position and related discursive traditions of the country form the background against which migratory processes and their...

This study proposes new ways of comparing discourses on population and argues that these discourses concern both management of the reproduction of human bodies on a massive scale, and competition at global and local levels for resources and/or an improved position in global and local...

This paper examines the dispersion of fertility across age and time which has rarely been studied. Using data from the Human Fertility Database, we examine fertility age schedules by looking at standard deviations in age at first births in European countries at different stages of fertility...

This paper examines the impact of parental economic status and family size on the actual and expected fertility of adult children using longitudinal data from two generations of families participating in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. There was a modest positive relationship between first...

This paper is motivated by the theory that developmental idealism has been disseminated globally and has become an important international force for family and demographic change. Developmental idealism is a set of cultural beliefs and values about development and how development relates to...