Máire Ní Bhrolcháin
Biographic Data
| ID | 209706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Máire Ní Bhrolcháin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Máire Ní |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhrolcháin |
| SIGNATURE | BHROLCHÁIN M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5128-9164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 454 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Rising Educational Participation and the Trend to Later Childbearing
Demographic Measurement
Demographic Measurement
The Demography and Epidemiology of Human Health and Aging
Education and Cohabitation in Britain
Cohabitation is sometimes thought of as being inversely associated with education, but in Britain a more complex picture emerges. Educational group differences in cohabitation vary by age, time period, cohort, and indicator used. Well-educated women pioneered cohabitation in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. In the most recent cohorts, however, the less educated have exceeded the best educated in the proportions ever having cohabited at young ages.…
Fertility postponement is largely due to rising educational enrolment
The rise in educational enrolment is often cited as a possible cause of the trend to later childbearing in developed societies but direct evidence of its contribution to the aggregate change in fertility tempo is scarce. We show that rising enrolment, resulting in later ages at the end of education, accounts for a substantial part of the upward shift in the mean age at first birth in the 1980s and 1990s in Britain and in France. The postponement …
Tempo and the TFR
Tempo effects in period fertility indicators are widely regarded as a source of bias or distortion. But is this always the case? Whether tempo change results in bias depends, in the view advanced here, on the measure used, the meaning of bias/distortion, and the objective of analysis. Two ways of construing bias in period measures are suggested, and their relevance is discussed in the context of five broad purposes for measuring period fertility:…
Sources of error in reported childlessness in a continuous British household survey
A recent investigation of the British General Household Survey (GHS) found substantial over-reporting of childlessness in recent years, particularly at older ages. We examine the phenomenon in further detail and find that the principal cause was change in survey procedures. To some extent the bias can be corrected for by using information on own children in the household. Revised fertility histories give period estimates of total fertility that a…
Demographic Decomposition of the Marriage Market in England and Wales 1911–1991
A method for decomposing partner availability into its demographic components (preferences, previous birth trends, migration and mortality, and structure by marital status) is presented and applied to marriage market estimates for selected census years 1911–91 in England and Wales. Preferences are a key component at the youngest ages. The role of other factors varies by age and time period. Contrary to widespread assumption, variation in cohort s…
On Causation in Demography
Partner Supply in Britain and the US
Nous présentons des estimations de l’offre de conjoints potentiels par sexe et par âge, pour les États-Unis et pour l’Angleterre-pays de Galles en 1990-1991, en utilisant des données explicites sur les préférences d’âge. L’offre varie considérablement en fonction de l’âge et du sexe : pour les femmes, elle décline avec l’âge, tandis que c’est l’inverse pour les hommes. La décomposition des données montre que les femmes jeunes sont largement avant…
Partner Supply in Britain and the US
Marriage market estimates by sex and age are made for the US and England and Wales in 1990-91, using explicit data on age preferences. Availability is strongly differentiated by age and sex; it decreases with age for women, while the opposite is true for men. Decomposition shows that young women are advantaged largely by age preferences while older men are advantaged by population age-sex and marital status structure. Most men marry at ages when …
L'offre de conjoints potentiels en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis
Resume Nous presentons des estimations de l’offre de conjoints potentiels par sexe et par âge, pour les Etats-Unis et pour l’Angleterre-Pays de Galles en 1990-1991, en utilisant des donnees explicites sur les preferences d’âge. L’offre varie considerablement en fonction de l’âge et du sexe : pour les femmes, elle decline avec l’âge, tandis que c’est l’inverse pour les hommes. La decomposition des donnees montre que les femmes jeunes sont largemen…
Flexibility in the Marriage Market (Population, 6, 2000)
Binion Rudolph.- Marianne au foyer. Révolution politique et transition démographique en France et aux États-Unis Les historiens de la France s'accordent sur la priorité de la transition démographique française mais sont en désaccord sur les causes de cette transition et sur ses rapports éventuels avec la Révolution de 1789 qui l'accompagna. Ils négligent la transition américaine partie de la Révolution américaine quelques années auparavant. L'ana…
La flexibilité du marché matrimonial
Ní Bhrolcháin Maire.- La flexibilité du marché matrimonial Contrairement à l'hypothèse classique de « pénurie de conjoints potentiels », les candidats au mariage paraissent s'adapter à la distribution par âge des conjoints potentiels plutôt que d'être gênés par elle, même dans des situations extrêmes. Dans les générations 1900-1969 en Angleterre-Galles, on observe (a) une grande variabilité dans le temps des proportions de personnes qui épousent …
Parental divorce and outcomes for children
Using longitudinal data from the UK National Child Development Study (NCDS) 1958 Birth Cohort), we examine the association, net of pre-disruption background factors, between the experience of family disruption between ages 7 and 16 and later experience of a range of outcomes usually considered adverse: early school leaving, leaving home early, teenage first partnership, early entry into parenthood, and extra-marital fertility. Logistic regression…
Adolescents after Divorce
Les Enfants du Désir
The Future of Low-Birthrate Populations
Scolarité et autres caractéristiques socio-démographiques des enfants de mariages rompus
Ní Bhrolcháin (Maire), Chappell (Roma), Diamond (Ian). - Scolarité et autres caractéristiques socio-démographiques des enfants de mariages rompus Un échantillon d'enfants nés en 1958 en Grande-Bretagne a fait l'objet de vagues d'enquêtes successives à 7 ans, 16 ans, 23 et 33 ans qui ont permis de déterminer leur situation familiale à ces diverses dates et d'y enregistrer des renseignements sur leur scolarité, le mode de vie et les attitudes de le…
New Perspectives on Fertility in Britain
This collection of papers was prepared in response to the relative dearth [in the United Kingdom] of recent research and writing on fertility by comparison with the level of research activity on marriage, family and related phenomena. The volume is intended as a contribution to updating and extending our knowledge of recent fertility developments in Britain: (1) key current methodological issues; (2) the intersection between fertility and recent …
Age difference asymmetry and a two-sex perspective
Period Paramount? A Critique of the Cohort Approach to Fertility
The aim of this discussion of cohort and period fertility estimation was to clarify the issue and resolve the conflict between 2 approaches. The typical view of these approaches is that fluctuations in period fertility represented in the total fertility rate (TFR) are due to the timing and pace of cohort fertility; these TFR changes distort. TFR appears high when the pace of cohort fertility increases. This tempo component of fertility must be re…
With This Ring
Distributional Aspects of Human Fertility
Fertility postponement is largely due to rising educational enrolment
The rise in educational enrolment is often cited as a possible cause of the trend to later childbearing in developed societies but direct evidence of its contribution to the aggregate change in fertility tempo is scarce. We show that rising enrolment, resulting in later ages at the end of education, accounts for a substantial part of the upward shift in the mean age at first birth in the 1980s and 1990s in Britain and in France. The postponement …
Social Class and Psychiatric Disturbance among Women in an Urban Population
While an association between social status and prevalence of psychiatric disurbance has often been reported, little has been established about aetiology or its significance for social class differences. In a survey of a random sample of women living in south London a large class difference in the prevalence of psychiatric disturbance was found. This difference is particularly great among women with young children at home. This paper examines why …
Period Paramount? A Critique of the Cohort Approach to Fertility
The aim of this discussion of cohort and period fertility estimation was to clarify the issue and resolve the conflict between 2 approaches. The typical view of these approaches is that fluctuations in period fertility represented in the total fertility rate (TFR) are due to the timing and pace of cohort fertility; these TFR changes distort. TFR appears high when the pace of cohort fertility increases. This tempo component of fertility must be re…
Rising Educational Participation and the Trend to Later Childbearing
On Causation in Demography
Period Parity Progression Ratios and Birth Intervals in England and Wales, 1941-1971
A method is presented for analysing maternity history data to provide period estimates of parity progression ratios, birth intervals and related indices. This is applied to a sample of the marriage and maternity histories from the Census of England and Wales of 1971 and shows: (a) a general increase through the 1950s and into the 1960s in period estimates of marriage and parity progression ratios, especially in the progression from first to secon…
Education and Cohabitation in Britain
Cohabitation is sometimes thought of as being inversely associated with education, but in Britain a more complex picture emerges. Educational group differences in cohabitation vary by age, time period, cohort, and indicator used. Well-educated women pioneered cohabitation in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. In the most recent cohorts, however, the less educated have exceeded the best educated in the proportions ever having cohabited at young ages.…
Tempo and the TFR
Tempo effects in period fertility indicators are widely regarded as a source of bias or distortion. But is this always the case? Whether tempo change results in bias depends, in the view advanced here, on the measure used, the meaning of bias/distortion, and the objective of analysis. Two ways of construing bias in period measures are suggested, and their relevance is discussed in the context of five broad purposes for measuring period fertility:…
Sources of error in reported childlessness in a continuous British household survey
A recent investigation of the British General Household Survey (GHS) found substantial over-reporting of childlessness in recent years, particularly at older ages. We examine the phenomenon in further detail and find that the principal cause was change in survey procedures. To some extent the bias can be corrected for by using information on own children in the household. Revised fertility histories give period estimates of total fertility that a…
Age difference asymmetry and a two-sex perspective
The ethnicity question for the 1991 Census
The Government announced on 13 November 1989 that an ethnicity question would be asked in the 1991 Census. The decision was taken following the favourable public response to the fielding of a new form of ethnicity question in the large-scale Census Test carried out in April 1989. The question asks the respondent to tick one box from among the following categories: White, Black-Caribbean, Black-African, Black-Other (with description), Indian, Paki…
Women's paid work and the timing of births
Flexibility in the Marriage Market (Population, 6, 2000)
Binion Rudolph.- Marianne au foyer. Révolution politique et transition démographique en France et aux États-Unis Les historiens de la France s'accordent sur la priorité de la transition démographique française mais sont en désaccord sur les causes de cette transition et sur ses rapports éventuels avec la Révolution de 1789 qui l'accompagna. Ils négligent la transition américaine partie de la Révolution américaine quelques années auparavant. L'ana…
Partner Supply in Britain and the US
Nous présentons des estimations de l’offre de conjoints potentiels par sexe et par âge, pour les États-Unis et pour l’Angleterre-pays de Galles en 1990-1991, en utilisant des données explicites sur les préférences d’âge. L’offre varie considérablement en fonction de l’âge et du sexe : pour les femmes, elle décline avec l’âge, tandis que c’est l’inverse pour les hommes. La décomposition des données montre que les femmes jeunes sont largement avant…
Parental divorce and outcomes for children
Using longitudinal data from the UK National Child Development Study (NCDS) 1958 Birth Cohort), we examine the association, net of pre-disruption background factors, between the experience of family disruption between ages 7 and 16 and later experience of a range of outcomes usually considered adverse: early school leaving, leaving home early, teenage first partnership, early entry into parenthood, and extra-marital fertility. Logistic regression…
The interpretation and role of work-associated accelerated childbearing in post-war Britain
L'offre de conjoints potentiels en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis
Resume Nous presentons des estimations de l’offre de conjoints potentiels par sexe et par âge, pour les Etats-Unis et pour l’Angleterre-Pays de Galles en 1990-1991, en utilisant des donnees explicites sur les preferences d’âge. L’offre varie considerablement en fonction de l’âge et du sexe : pour les femmes, elle decline avec l’âge, tandis que c’est l’inverse pour les hommes. La decomposition des donnees montre que les femmes jeunes sont largemen…
La flexibilité du marché matrimonial
Ní Bhrolcháin Maire.- La flexibilité du marché matrimonial Contrairement à l'hypothèse classique de « pénurie de conjoints potentiels », les candidats au mariage paraissent s'adapter à la distribution par âge des conjoints potentiels plutôt que d'être gênés par elle, même dans des situations extrêmes. Dans les générations 1900-1969 en Angleterre-Galles, on observe (a) une grande variabilité dans le temps des proportions de personnes qui épousent …
Partner Supply in Britain and the US
Marriage market estimates by sex and age are made for the US and England and Wales in 1990-91, using explicit data on age preferences. Availability is strongly differentiated by age and sex; it decreases with age for women, while the opposite is true for men. Decomposition shows that young women are advantaged largely by age preferences while older men are advantaged by population age-sex and marital status structure. Most men marry at ages when …
The Contraceptive Confidence Idea
In this paper the hypothesis that ‘contraceptive confidence’ promotes accelerated childbearing is presented and examined. Methodological difficulties in investigating the question empirically are discussed. Because of the absence of a direct measure, a proxy indicator of ‘contraceptive confidence’ is used in multivariate analyses of maternity history data. These give results consistent with the existence of a contraceptive confidence effect. Evid…
Scolarité et autres caractéristiques socio-démographiques des enfants de mariages rompus
Ní Bhrolcháin (Maire), Chappell (Roma), Diamond (Ian). - Scolarité et autres caractéristiques socio-démographiques des enfants de mariages rompus Un échantillon d'enfants nés en 1958 en Grande-Bretagne a fait l'objet de vagues d'enquêtes successives à 7 ans, 16 ans, 23 et 33 ans qui ont permis de déterminer leur situation familiale à ces diverses dates et d'y enregistrer des renseignements sur leur scolarité, le mode de vie et les attitudes de le…
New Perspectives on Fertility in Britain
This collection of papers was prepared in response to the relative dearth [in the United Kingdom] of recent research and writing on fertility by comparison with the level of research activity on marriage, family and related phenomena. The volume is intended as a contribution to updating and extending our knowledge of recent fertility developments in Britain: (1) key current methodological issues; (2) the intersection between fertility and recent …
A general approach to the machine handling of event history data
A Study of Depression in Women
We welcome Dr. Hope's detailed comments on our paper, 'Social Class and psychiatric disturbance among women in an urban population* in Sociology , May 1975, and here take the opportunity of clarifying briefly, and in so far as we can with our present data, the questions he has raised. We shall deal with each of Dr. Hope's numbered points in turn: the first deal with the technical points concerning sampling etc. and the later ones with more fundam…
Social Class and Psychiatric Disturbance among Women in an Urban Population
While an association between social status and prevalence of psychiatric disurbance has often been reported, little has been established about aetiology or its significance for social class differences. In a survey of a random sample of women living in south London a large class difference in the prevalence of psychiatric disturbance was found. This difference is particularly great among women with young children at home. This paper examines why …
A Study of Depression in Women
We welcome Dr. Hope's detailed comments on our paper, 'Social Class and psychiatric disturbance among women in an urban population* in Sociology , May 1975, and here take the opportunity of clarifying briefly, and in so far as we can with our present data, the questions he has raised. We shall deal with each of Dr. Hope's numbered points in turn: the first deal with the technical points concerning sampling etc. and the later ones with more fundam…
Birth intervals and women's economic activity
Some hypotheses regarding birth spacing and women's work are outlined. Using British census and survey data it is shown that average second and third birth intervals were shorter in marriages taking place in the 10 years following the Second World War as compared with marriages in the period 1900–29; the intervals increased again, measured on a period basis, in the 1970s. Birth intervals for women married during the 10 years after the war were sh…
A general approach to the machine handling of event history data
Women's paid work and the timing of births
The interpretation and role of work-associated accelerated childbearing in post-war Britain
Period Parity Progression Ratios and Birth Intervals in England and Wales, 1941-1971
A method is presented for analysing maternity history data to provide period estimates of parity progression ratios, birth intervals and related indices. This is applied to a sample of the marriage and maternity histories from the Census of England and Wales of 1971 and shows: (a) a general increase through the 1950s and into the 1960s in period estimates of marriage and parity progression ratios, especially in the progression from first to secon…
The Contraceptive Confidence Idea
In this paper the hypothesis that ‘contraceptive confidence’ promotes accelerated childbearing is presented and examined. Methodological difficulties in investigating the question empirically are discussed. Because of the absence of a direct measure, a proxy indicator of ‘contraceptive confidence’ is used in multivariate analyses of maternity history data. These give results consistent with the existence of a contraceptive confidence effect. Evid…
Distributional Aspects of Human Fertility
Lifestyles, Contraception and Parenthood
The ethnicity question for the 1991 Census
The Government announced on 13 November 1989 that an ethnicity question would be asked in the 1991 Census. The decision was taken following the favourable public response to the fielding of a new form of ethnicity question in the large-scale Census Test carried out in April 1989. The question asks the respondent to tick one box from among the following categories: White, Black-Caribbean, Black-African, Black-Other (with description), Indian, Paki…
With This Ring
Age difference asymmetry and a two-sex perspective
Period Paramount? A Critique of the Cohort Approach to Fertility
The aim of this discussion of cohort and period fertility estimation was to clarify the issue and resolve the conflict between 2 approaches. The typical view of these approaches is that fluctuations in period fertility represented in the total fertility rate (TFR) are due to the timing and pace of cohort fertility; these TFR changes distort. TFR appears high when the pace of cohort fertility increases. This tempo component of fertility must be re…
The Future of Low-Birthrate Populations
Scolarité et autres caractéristiques socio-démographiques des enfants de mariages rompus
Ní Bhrolcháin (Maire), Chappell (Roma), Diamond (Ian). - Scolarité et autres caractéristiques socio-démographiques des enfants de mariages rompus Un échantillon d'enfants nés en 1958 en Grande-Bretagne a fait l'objet de vagues d'enquêtes successives à 7 ans, 16 ans, 23 et 33 ans qui ont permis de déterminer leur situation familiale à ces diverses dates et d'y enregistrer des renseignements sur leur scolarité, le mode de vie et les attitudes de le…
New Perspectives on Fertility in Britain
This collection of papers was prepared in response to the relative dearth [in the United Kingdom] of recent research and writing on fertility by comparison with the level of research activity on marriage, family and related phenomena. The volume is intended as a contribution to updating and extending our knowledge of recent fertility developments in Britain: (1) key current methodological issues; (2) the intersection between fertility and recent …
Adolescents after Divorce
Les Enfants du Désir
La flexibilité du marché matrimonial
Ní Bhrolcháin Maire.- La flexibilité du marché matrimonial Contrairement à l'hypothèse classique de « pénurie de conjoints potentiels », les candidats au mariage paraissent s'adapter à la distribution par âge des conjoints potentiels plutôt que d'être gênés par elle, même dans des situations extrêmes. Dans les générations 1900-1969 en Angleterre-Galles, on observe (a) une grande variabilité dans le temps des proportions de personnes qui épousent …
Parental divorce and outcomes for children
Using longitudinal data from the UK National Child Development Study (NCDS) 1958 Birth Cohort), we examine the association, net of pre-disruption background factors, between the experience of family disruption between ages 7 and 16 and later experience of a range of outcomes usually considered adverse: early school leaving, leaving home early, teenage first partnership, early entry into parenthood, and extra-marital fertility. Logistic regression…
Flexibility in the Marriage Market (Population, 6, 2000)
Binion Rudolph.- Marianne au foyer. Révolution politique et transition démographique en France et aux États-Unis Les historiens de la France s'accordent sur la priorité de la transition démographique française mais sont en désaccord sur les causes de cette transition et sur ses rapports éventuels avec la Révolution de 1789 qui l'accompagna. Ils négligent la transition américaine partie de la Révolution américaine quelques années auparavant. L'ana…
Partner Supply in Britain and the US
Nous présentons des estimations de l’offre de conjoints potentiels par sexe et par âge, pour les États-Unis et pour l’Angleterre-pays de Galles en 1990-1991, en utilisant des données explicites sur les préférences d’âge. L’offre varie considérablement en fonction de l’âge et du sexe : pour les femmes, elle décline avec l’âge, tandis que c’est l’inverse pour les hommes. La décomposition des données montre que les femmes jeunes sont largement avant…
Partner Supply in Britain and the US
Marriage market estimates by sex and age are made for the US and England and Wales in 1990-91, using explicit data on age preferences. Availability is strongly differentiated by age and sex; it decreases with age for women, while the opposite is true for men. Decomposition shows that young women are advantaged largely by age preferences while older men are advantaged by population age-sex and marital status structure. Most men marry at ages when …
L'offre de conjoints potentiels en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis
Resume Nous presentons des estimations de l’offre de conjoints potentiels par sexe et par âge, pour les Etats-Unis et pour l’Angleterre-Pays de Galles en 1990-1991, en utilisant des donnees explicites sur les preferences d’âge. L’offre varie considerablement en fonction de l’âge et du sexe : pour les femmes, elle decline avec l’âge, tandis que c’est l’inverse pour les hommes. La decomposition des donnees montre que les femmes jeunes sont largemen…
Sociology (25 works) · Demography (23 works) · Population (19 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (15 works) · Fertility (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (12 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Economics (11 works)