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Poland: Fertility decline as a response to profound societal and labour market changes? [PDF]
This article opens with a review of the main trends in family-related behaviour, i.e. fertility decline and changes in fertility patterns, a decreasing propensity to marry, postponement of marriage, and a slowly increasing frequency of divorces and ...
Anna Baranowska-Rataj +3 more
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Patterns of lowest-low fertility in Europe [PDF]
In this paper we conduct descriptive aggregate analyses to revisit the relation between low and lowest-low period fertility on the one, and cohort fertility and key fertility-related behaviors---such as leaving the parental home, marriage and female ...
Francesco C. Billari, Hans-Peter Kohler
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For Better and Worse: The Differing Income Tax Treatments of Marriage at Different Income Levels [PDF]
, 2015 Although both marriage penalties and marriage bonuses exist at all income levels under the federal income tax, the system is tilted toward penalties for lower-income couples, toward bonuses for middle-income couples, and back toward penalties for upper ...
Zelenak, Lawrence A.
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Cohabitation and Family Formation in Japan [PDF]
This paper documents the prevalence, duration, and marital outcomes of cohabiting unions in Japan. It then examines the correlates of cohabitation experiences and describes differences in the family formation trajectories of women who have and have not ...
James M. Raymo +2 more
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Economics of marriage and divorce [PDF]
In order to understand these ideas, we have to develop a model of both marriage and divorce (or, in other words, a model that allows for changes over time in the utility from marriage).
Leora Friedberg, Steven Stern
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Early traces of the Second Demographic Transition in Bulgaria: a joint analysis of marital and non-marital union formation [PDF]
In this paper, we study entry into the first conjugal union among young women in Bulgaria in 1980 through 2004 based on data from the national Gender and Generations Survey conducted in 2004. We use an extension of piecewise-constant hazard regression to
Dora Kostova, Jan M. Hoem
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Do marital prospects dissuade unmarried fertility?
, 2012 Unmarried fertility was a lot lower in the 1970s than in the 1990s. It was also the case that unmarried mothers had much lower marriage rates than non-mothers, a differential that has largely vanished over time.
Kennes, John, Knowles, John
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In sickness and in Health? Dynamics of health and cohabitation in the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2007 The purpose of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of cohabitation and functional impairments among older people. Our research has three main aims. Firstly, we want to analyse the effects of cohabitation on disability.
Karlsson, M. +2 more
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Romania: Childbearing metamorphosis within a changing context [PDF]
In 1989, the socialist regime in Romania collapsed and the state’s coercive pro-natalist policy ended. Since then, fertility has gone through major changes, namely, a massive reduction in fertility and important structural changes: birth postponement, an
Christin Schröder +3 more
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Slovakia: Fertility between tradition and modernity [PDF]
In the last 60 years, Slovakia has experienced comparatively high and most recently very low fertility, long periods of stable fertility alternating with periods of changes, periods of substantial as well as lesser state interventions.
Boris Vano +3 more
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