to show the true diversity of familial organization in Eastern Europe, which had been placed at the other end of the … the rhythms of their development in historical Eastern Europe presented in this literature should finally free us from a …

Although cohabitation and childbearing within cohabitation has increased dramatically in Europe over the past decades …, the variation across Europe remains remarkable. Most studies on changing union formation have not explicitly addressed how … theoretical issues and explore examples from across Western Europe. As a whole, this overview raises questions about the changing …

power relations within the family, the regional demography of historical Europe, and the study of spatial patterning of … historical family forms in Europe. It is a preliminary exercise in the design and application of the new “master variable” for … regions of historic Europe covering more than 700,000 individuals living in 143,000 domestic groups from the Atlantic to the …

covering up to 60 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, and Oceania. This paper presents conceptual considerations and …

Several countries in Northern and Western Europe report cohort fertility rates of close to two children per woman … play an important role for understanding the current fertility differences in Western Europe. …

This paper investigates the role of states and regions in shaping spatial patterns of non-marital fertility in Europe … half of the 20th century states played a dominant role in drawing the demographic map of Europe. As a result, subnational … variation in nonmarital fertility levels increased as a whole across Europe, and states continued to be important for …

births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing … hazard models to examine the educational gradient of childbearing in cohabitation in 8 countries across Europe. In all …