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previously published indexes of marriage, divorce, and childbearing risks by calendar year in order to cover the developments up …
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There has been a lot of demographic research concerning the relationship between education and fertility. Most studies …, however, focus on the level of education and do not include the field of education. Our paper shows that the field of … education serves as a better indicator of a woman’s potential reproductive behavior than the level of education does. Our …
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some sixty educational groups of Swedish women, defined according to field of education as well as level of education. The … first paper is about childlessness and education, the present one about the mean number of children ever born. We find that … ultimate fertility decreases somewhat with an increasing educational level, but its dependence on the field of education is …
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In this paper we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education taken in addition to the … conventional level of education attained. Our empirical investigation uses register records containing childbearing and educational … high number of educational field-and-level combinations (some sixty in all). It turns out that the field of education …
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In this paper, we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education attained in addition to … the conventional level of education. Our empirical investigation uses register records containing childbearing and … education serves as an indicator of a woman’s potential reproductive behavior better than the mere level. We discover that in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163272
some sixty educational groups of Swedish women, defined according to field of education as well as level of education. The … first paper is about childlessness and education, the present one about the mean number of children ever born. We find that … ultimate fertility decreases somewhat with an increasing educational level, but its dependence on the field of education is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700159
During recent decades fertility in Sweden has evolved in tandem with the business cycle. Supported by social policies, both women and men tend to postpone starting a family until they have acquired a secure job with decent earnings. In this study we add to previous research by investigating how...
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This article studies childbearing dynamics by labor-market status of co-residing parents in Sweden. We apply event-history techniques to longitudinal register data on the life histories of foreign-born mothers from ten different countries and the partners to these women, as well as to a sample...
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Extending recent research on parental gender preferences in the Nordic countries, this study uses unique register data from Finland and Sweden (1971-1999) that provide us with the opportunity to compare childbearing dynamics and possible underlying sex preferences among natives and national...
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In Sweden, parents receive a parental-leave allowance of a high percentage (currently 80%) of their pre-birth salary for about a year in connection with any birth. If they space their births sufficiently closely, they avoid a reduction in the allowance caused by any reduced income earned between...
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