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Delayed Fertility and Childlessness
Abstract As family formation is delayed to older ages in a growing number of countries, the window of opportunity to have children is narrowing for an increasing number of people. This leads us to ask whether delayed first birth is associated with an increasing number of people remaining childless at the end of their reproductive lives in ...
Beaujouan, Eva, Neels, Karel
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Health Influences on Second‐ and Third‐Birth Probabilities in Norway
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract We examined how several health variables were associated with mothers’ probability of having a second or third child and the timing of the second birth. Data from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) and linked registers were used.
Øystein Kravdal +2 more
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Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract The Nordic countries of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland were among the first countries to acknowledge same‐sex couples’ partnership and parenthood rights in their legislation. We explore trends over time in the share of female same‐sex and different‐sex couples that have children following their legal union and variation by socioeconomic ...
Maria Ponkilainen +6 more
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Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract On the one hand, higher education can encourage childbearing through the income effect. On the other hand, it also raises opportunity costs, potentially reducing fertility through the substitution effect. Although the traditionally negative association between education and fertility has been attributed to these costs, recent findings suggest ...
Victor A. Leocádio +2 more
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Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract The second demographic transition (SDT) theory highlights how nontraditional family behaviors first emerged in Nordic countries and diffused elsewhere. Cross‐national variations in approval of such behaviors across educational groups and changes over time remain underexplored, however.
Katrin Schwanitz +3 more
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Thinking Through Parenthood: The Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty and Personality
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An overwhelming majority of the human population end up parenting a child, and the concept of family is arguably one of the most shared across societies. Thus, most people will at some point engage in thought processes about the prospect of becoming a parent, a prospect coupled with uncertainties (e.g., “Should I? Do I want to? Can I?”).
Anna Torstensson +2 more
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Educational attainment and ultimate fertility among Swedish women born in 1955-59
Demographic Research, 2006 This is the second of two companion papers addressing the association between educational attainment and fertility for some sixty educational groups of Swedish women, defined according to field of education as well as level of education.
Gerda Neyer +2 more
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Management of involuntary childlessness.
The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 1997 Any definition of involuntary childlessness has to consider the difference between sterility and subfertility. As the latter affects about 20-30% of all couples at least once in their lives, general practitioners (GPs) may be the first to be confronted with this problem. This review presents the most relevant diagnostic and therapeutic options in cases
Himmel, Wolfgang +7 more
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