Torkild Hovde Lyngstad
Biographic Data
| ID | 164671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Torkild Hovde Lyngstad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Torkild Hovde |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyngstad |
| SIGNATURE | LYNGSTAD T H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7830-9305 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 450 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Labour, capital, and the nordic health paradox
While Nordic countries are associated with comparatively low levels of economic inequality, their social mortality gradient is comparable in magnitude to that found in far less egalitarian societies, a phenomenon commonly referred to as ‘the Nordic health paradox’. This paper argues that much of this apparent paradox may stem from an overly narrow conception of economic inequality, which tends to be centred around the distribution of labour marke…
The role of gender in gene by family SES interactions – A twin study across four European countries
Studies of gene-by-family socioeconomic status (GxSES) interactions in educational outcomes have yielded mixed findings. Building on a socio-contextual perspective, this study emphasizes that genetic influences are shaped not only by family environments but also by broader social forces, including gender and institutional context. Prior sociogenetic research, for example, suggests that early school tracking may suppress genetic influences. Using …
Genetic risks for depression and educational achievement in adolescence
Mental health problems, including depressive disorders, show strong and robust associations with labour market attainment and other stratification outcomes, but underlying processes remain unclear. We use a genetically informed design to examine associations between genetic liability to major depressive disorder and ninth-grade educational achievement. Using nearly 38,000 parent-child trios from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study linked …
The Genetics of Partnership Dissolution
There is a genetic component to divorce risk, but little is known about which and how genetically influenced traits are involved. This study makes three major contributions to address these gaps. First, we link genetic data from the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) to population register data and estimate the total influence of common genetic variants on partnership dissolution (N = 121, 408). Then, we identify heritable tr…
Parental Divorce and Children's Partnership Dynamics
Objective This study investigates the consequences of parental divorce on offspring's likelihood of entering and dissolving marital or cohabiting partnerships, assessing whether intergenerational associations are driven by causal processes, selection factors, or both. Background Children of divorced parents tend to enter partnerships earlier, are less likely to marry, and are more likely to dissolve their partnership. While environmental explanat…
The nature of the relation between mental well-being and ill-being
No evidence of positive causal effects of maternal and paternal age at first birth on children's test scores at age 10 years
Research has shown that higher maternal and paternal age is positively associated with children's education. Debate continues as to whether these relationships are causal. This is of great interest given the postponement of first births in almost all developed countries during the twentieth century. Here we use an instrumental variable approach (Mendelian randomization) using maternal and paternal polygenic indices (PGIs) for age at first birth-w…
Fertility Intentions Across Five Decades in Norway
Fertility intentions are strong predictors of future childbearing at both individual and aggregate levels, reflecting cultural norms and values around family formation and childbearing. Given the recent decline in fertility across Western industrialized societies, research on fertility intentions has become increasingly important. In particular, falling birth rates in the Nordic countries − traditionally held up as exemplars of modern family poli…
Social origins and socioeconomic outcomes: A Combined Twin and Adoption Study
Parents and children tend to have similar socioeconomic status (SES). Sociological theory has often emphasized the role of social mechanisms in intergenerational transmission, including the influence of the broader rearing environment as well as parental investments and aid, but often not allotted an important role to genetics. Accumulating evidence suggests that genetics play an important role in the transmission of SES from parents to children.…
Socioeconomic status and risk for child psychopathology: Exploring gene–environment interaction in the presence of gene–environment correlation using extended families in the Norwegian Mother, Father …
BACKGROUND: Low socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with increased risk for emotional and behavioural problems among children. Evidence from twin studies has shown that family SES moderates genetic and environmental influences on child mental health. However, it is also known that SES is itself under genetic influence and previous gene-environment interaction (G×E) studies have not incorporated the potential genetic overlap between child men…
Heritability of class and status: Implications for sociological theory and research
Most individual-level outcomes of interest to sociologists are indirectly influenced by genetics, including socioeconomic outcomes like education, income, wealth, and occupational status. Despite this knowledge, an integration of sociological theories of class and status with the research literature on genetic heritability is largely lacking, and no previous studies have investigated the role of genetics specifically for class attainment – a cent…
Social Background Effects on Educational Outcomes—New Insights from Modern Genetic Science
Sociological theory and empirical research have found that parents’ socioeconomic status and related resources affect their children’s educational outcomes. Findings from behavior genetics reveal genetic underpinnings of the intergenerational transmission of education, thus altering previous conclusions about purely environmental transmission mechanisms. In recent years, studies in molecular genetics have led to new insights. Genomic data, polyge…
Is single parenthood increasingly an experience of less-educated mothers? A European comparison over five decades
BACKGROUND: A central question in family research is whether parents’ social disadvantages, such as being a single parent or having low education, are becoming more concentrated over time. OBJECTIVE: We contribute to this literature by examining long-term trends in the gap in single parenthood between more educated and less-educated mothers since the 1970s to around 2015, placing special emphasis on children’s age. METHODS: To this end, we rely o…
More than nature and nurture, indirect genetic effects on children's academic achievement are consequences of dynastic social processes
An anatomy of the intergenerational correlation of educational attainment – Learning from the educational attainments of Norwegian twins and their children
Research on the intergenerational correlation of educational attainment (ICE) has long attempted to identify the impact of family background, specifically parent’s education. However, previous research has largely ignored genetic inheritance. We address this shortcoming by adopting a Multiple-Children-of-Twin design and decompose the ICE into its environmental and genetic transmission mechanisms. This decomposition reveals to what extent the impa…
Genetic Influences on Educational Achievement in Cross-National Perspective
There is a growing interest in how social conditions moderate genetic influences on education [gene-environment interactions (GxE)]. Previous research has focused on the family, specifically parents' social background, and has neglected the institutional environment. To assess the impact of macro-level influences, we compare genetic influences on educational achievement and their social stratification across Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the Unite…
Effects of Covid‐19 lockdown on parental functioning in vulnerable families
Objective: The aim of this study was to increase the knowledge about how the initial Covid-19 lockdown influenced parental functioning in vulnerable families. Background: The Covid-19 pandemic has caused major changes to family life. Using a natural experiment design can potentially adjudicate on former inconclusive findings about the effects of lockdown on parental functioning in vulnerable families. Method: = 1368 responses). Mixed model regres…
Ethnic segregation and native out-migration in Copenhagen
In this article, we study how the local concentration of ethnic minorities relates to the likelihood of out-migration by natives in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. In US studies, a high or increasing proportion of racial or ethnic minorities in inner-city neighborhoods is seen as an important motivation for White middle-class families’ out-migration to racially and ethnically homogeneous suburbs. The relatively egalitarian Scandinavian settin…
Sibling Similarity in Education Across and Within Societies
The extent to which siblings resemble each other measures the omnibus impact of family background on life chances. We study sibling similarity in cognitive skills, school grades, and educational attainment in Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We also compare sibling similarity by parental education and occupation within these societies. The comparison of sibling correlations across and within societies a…
The Production of Inequalities within Families and across Generations: The Intergenerational Effects of Birth Order on Educational Attainment
There has long been interest in the extent to which effects of social stratification extend and persist across generations. We take a novel approach to this question by asking whether birth order in the parental generation influences the educational attainment of their children. To address this question, we use Swedish population data on cohorts born 1960-1982. To study the effects of parental birth order, we use cousin fixed effects comparisons.…
Neighbourhood Concentration and Representation of Non-European Migrants: New Results from Norway
In a previous study, Andersson et al. (A comparative study of segregation patterns in Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden: neighbourhood concentration and representation of non-European migrants. Eur J Popul 34:1-25, 2018) compared the patterns of residential segregation between non-European immigrants and the rest of the population in four European countries, using the k -nearest neighbours approach to compute comparable measures of seg…
Fra sosiobiologi til biososiologi: Kommentar til 1980-tallets debatt om sosiobiologi i TfS
Nationalistic bias in sport performance evaluations: An example from the ski jumping world cup
Illegitimate biases of non-independent judges represent a threat to the legitimacy of international sport competitions. Judges’ nationalities represent one source of bias, as they consciously or subconsciously may prefer athletes from their own nation. Such biases may affect the outcomes of competitions. The literature offers no complete consensus on the magnitude, origin and stability of such biases. In this paper, we shed light on these problem…
Comparing Patterns of Segregation in North-Western Europe: A Multiscalar Approach
Immigrant mothers' preferences for children's sexes: A register-based study of fertility behaviour in Norway
Parental sex preferences have been documented in many native populations, but much less evidence is available on immigrants' preferences for the sexes of their children. Using high-quality longitudinal register data from Norway, a country with a recent immigration history, we estimate hazards regression models of third birth risks by the sex composition of the first two children. A central question in the extant literature is whether the sex pref…
Do siblings’ fertility decisions influence each other
Individuals’ fertility decisions are shaped not only by their own characteristics and life course paths but also by social interaction with others. However, in practice, it is difficult to disentangle the role of social interaction from other factors, such as individual and family background variables. We measure social interaction through the cross-sibling influences on fertility. Continuous-time hazard models are estimated separately for women’…
The impact of parent's and spouses' education on divorce rates in Norway
According to both economic and sociological theory, a couple's divorce rate may be influenced by their own educational attainment, that of their parents, and whether they have taken further education after marriage, although predictions are ambiguous
Shared housework in Norway and Sweden: Advancing the gender revolution
In the first part of the gender revolution, women have entered the public spheres of education, employment and politics. The next step is the process by which men enter the private sphere and share the responsibility for the care of home and children equally with their female partners. Using comparable survey data, we investigate to what extent this process is underway in Norway and Sweden, analysing both ideal and actual sharing. Young Swedish c…
Pooling of Economic Resources: A Comparison of Norwegian Married and Cohabiting Couples
Using Norwegian survey data (n = 4116), we study couples’ likelihood of pooling their economic resources. The proportion of cohabiting couples to married couples is high in Norway. In addition, over the last decades, tax policy and the social security system have moved in the direction of equating cohabitation with marriage. Our knowledge about the ways in which these two different kinds of couples organize their economic resources is, however, r…
Labor and Love: Wives' Employment and Divorce Risk in its Socio-Political Context
We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is…
Why do Couples with Highly Educated Parents have Higher Divorce Rates
Some studies have found that having highly educated parents or having a middle- or upper-class background increases the risk of divorce, but the literature offers little theoretical reasoning on the nature of this effect. This paper extends earlier research on this relationship by considering several competing explanations of the elevated divorce risk for couples from such backgrounds. Continuous-time hazard models are estimated using register-ba…
Proceed With Caution? Parents' Union Dissolution and Children's Educational Achievement
Using high-quality Norwegian register data on 49,879 children from 23,655 families, the authors estimated sibling fixed-effects models to explore whether children who are younger at the time of a parental union dissolution perform less well academically, as measured by their grades at age 16, than their older siblings who have spent more time living with both biological parents. Results from a baseline model suggest a positive age gradient that i…
Dissolution risks in first and higher order marital and cohabiting unions
Family Life History and Late Mid-Life Mortality in Norway
Using data on all Norwegians born 1935-68, we analyze the associations between mortality and a combined indicator of fertility and marital or partnership status and history. The focus is on ages 40-73 and the years 1980-2008 (30 million person-years of observations and 117,000 deaths). Among men in first marriages, the childless have 36 percent higher mortality than those with two or more children. The corresponding figure for women is 61 percent…
Nordic Register Data and Their Untapped Potential for Criminological Knowledge
The Nordic countries have developed similar advanced register data systems for purposes of producing official statistics and research. The register’s advantages in criminological research include the ability to maintain data on the total population; the possibility of studying small subpopulations; a virtually continuous timeline in longitudinal data sets; using panel data designs with no sample attrition; having few or no nonresponses or other m…
Does Community Context Have an Important Impact on Divorce Risk? A Fixed-Effects Study of Twenty Norwegian First-Marriage Cohorts
The decision to divorce may be affected by the characteristics of the local community. Community characteristics may be barriers to divorce, or they may increase the attractiveness of divorcing (e.g., access to a good remarriage market), but our knowledge of such influences is sparse. This study examines two such community-level factors: socio-economic conditions and the local marriage market. In this study, discrete-time hazard models with commu…
Sibling Similarity in Education Across and Within Societies
The extent to which siblings resemble each other measures the omnibus impact of family background on life chances. We study sibling similarity in cognitive skills, school grades, and educational attainment in Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We also compare sibling similarity by parental education and occupation within these societies. The comparison of sibling correlations across and within societies a…
Immigrant mothers' preferences for children's sexes: A register-based study of fertility behaviour in Norway
Parental sex preferences have been documented in many native populations, but much less evidence is available on immigrants' preferences for the sexes of their children. Using high-quality longitudinal register data from Norway, a country with a recent immigration history, we estimate hazards regression models of third birth risks by the sex composition of the first two children. A central question in the extant literature is whether the sex pref…
The Role of Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Adolescence for Adult Educational Attainment: Evidence from Sibling Comparisons using Data from the Young Hunt Study
To what extent are adolescent mental health problems negatively related to educational attainment? If so, do these relationships primarily reflect childhood socio-economic circumstances that lower both mental health and educational attainment or do individuals’ mental health vulnerabilities impede educational potential regardless of social origin? Using a population-based Norwegian health survey linked to administrative registry data, this study …
Does Marriage Reduce Crime
The “marriage effect” is one of the most widely studied topics of life course criminology. The contemporary consensus is that marriage promotes desistance from crime. Most of the 58 studies reviewed here find a negative longitudinal association between marriage and crime. The results are more consistent among men. Studies that attend to relationship quality, such as the level of marital attachment, tend to produce particularly strong associations…
The influence of offspring's sex and age at parents' divorce on the intergenerational transmission of divorce, Norwegian first marriages 1980-2003
Whether a couple remain married or divorce has repeatedly been shown to be of importance for the marital stability of their children. This paper addresses the related question of whether the intergenerational transmission of divorce is contingent on the age at which parents divorced and the sex of the spouse who experienced the parents' divorce. Using a population-wide data-set on Norwegian first marriages followed from 1980 to 2003, we find that…
Accounting for Genocide: How Many Were Killed in Srebrenica
Adolescent mental health and earnings inequalities in adulthood: Evidence from the Young-Hunt Study
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown that adolescent mental health problems are associated with lower employment probabilities and risk of unemployment. The evidence on how earnings are affected is much weaker, and few have addressed whether any association reflects unobserved characteristics and whether the consequences of mental health problems vary across the earnings distribution. METHODS: A population-based Norwegian health survey linked …
Crime and The Transition to Parenthood: The Role of Sex and Relationship Context
Research on desistance from crime has given little attention to the transition to parenthood as a ‘turning point.’ Parenthood might have different implications for men and women, as well as for individuals in different relationship contexts. Using a within-individual design and Norwegian register data on men and women who became parents in 1997–2001, we provide detailed descriptions of offending patterns. The results imply that, for men and women…
Neighbourhood Concentration and Representation of Non-European Migrants: New Results from Norway
In a previous study, Andersson et al. (A comparative study of segregation patterns in Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden: neighbourhood concentration and representation of non-European migrants. Eur J Popul 34:1-25, 2018) compared the patterns of residential segregation between non-European immigrants and the rest of the population in four European countries, using the k -nearest neighbours approach to compute comparable measures of seg…
Comparing Patterns of Segregation in North-Western Europe: A Multiscalar Approach
Crime and the Transition to Marriage: The Role of the Spouse’s Criminal Involvement
Influential perspectives in life course criminology maintain that marriage leads to desistance from crime, and the mechanisms are largely related to spousal social control. Whether and to what degree marriage represents a break from a criminal past might depend on the spouse’s criminal attitude. We study how changes in offending are related to marriage, and how the patterns vary by the wife’s criminal record. We use data from Norwegian administra…
More than nature and nurture, indirect genetic effects on children's academic achievement are consequences of dynastic social processes
An anatomy of the intergenerational correlation of educational attainment – Learning from the educational attainments of Norwegian twins and their children
Research on the intergenerational correlation of educational attainment (ICE) has long attempted to identify the impact of family background, specifically parent’s education. However, previous research has largely ignored genetic inheritance. We address this shortcoming by adopting a Multiple-Children-of-Twin design and decompose the ICE into its environmental and genetic transmission mechanisms. This decomposition reveals to what extent the impa…
Intergenerational transmission of age at first birth in Norway
Using data from administrative registers, we examine the intergenerational transmission of timing of first birth in Norway for all men and women born between 1954 and 1964. We assess the extent of any intergenerational transmission using discrete-time event history analysis, and estimate associations between the age at first birth of parents and their children. Results suggest that intergenerational transmission of age at first birth is evident i…
Accounting for Genocide: How Many Were Killed in Srebrenica
The impact of parent's and spouses' education on divorce rates in Norway
According to both economic and sociological theory, a couple's divorce rate may be influenced by their own educational attainment, that of their parents, and whether they have taken further education after marriage, although predictions are ambiguous
Why do Couples with Highly Educated Parents have Higher Divorce Rates
Some studies have found that having highly educated parents or having a middle- or upper-class background increases the risk of divorce, but the literature offers little theoretical reasoning on the nature of this effect. This paper extends earlier research on this relationship by considering several competing explanations of the elevated divorce risk for couples from such backgrounds. Continuous-time hazard models are estimated using register-ba…
Dissolution risks in first and higher order marital and cohabiting unions
Shared housework in Norway and Sweden: Advancing the gender revolution
In the first part of the gender revolution, women have entered the public spheres of education, employment and politics. The next step is the process by which men enter the private sphere and share the responsibility for the care of home and children equally with their female partners. Using comparable survey data, we investigate to what extent this process is underway in Norway and Sweden, analysing both ideal and actual sharing. Young Swedish c…
Fri flyt av kapital? En kommentar til begrepsbruk i sosiologi og annen samfunnsvitenskap
The influence of offspring's sex and age at parents' divorce on the intergenerational transmission of divorce, Norwegian first marriages 1980-2003
Whether a couple remain married or divorce has repeatedly been shown to be of importance for the marital stability of their children. This paper addresses the related question of whether the intergenerational transmission of divorce is contingent on the age at which parents divorced and the sex of the spouse who experienced the parents' divorce. Using a population-wide data-set on Norwegian first marriages followed from 1980 to 2003, we find that…
Michéle Lamont: How Professors Think
A review of the antecedents of union dissolution
The question of what factors contribute to the stability of coresidential partnerships has attracted the attention of many social scientists. This study summarizes recent research on the determinants of union dissolution within a set of substantive the
Do siblings’ fertility decisions influence each other
Individuals’ fertility decisions are shaped not only by their own characteristics and life course paths but also by social interaction with others. However, in practice, it is difficult to disentangle the role of social interaction from other factors, such as individual and family background variables. We measure social interaction through the cross-sibling influences on fertility. Continuous-time hazard models are estimated separately for women’…
Agentbasert modellering en del av samfunnsvitenskapenes verktøykasse
Agentbasert modellering – en del av samfunnsvitenskapenes verktøykasse\nI denne artikkelen introduserer vi agentbaserte modeller og gir eksempler på hvordan slike modeller har vært brukt i analyser av sosiale fenomener. Agentbaserte modeller er databaserte simuleringsmodeller som definerer et sett med agenter som handler og samhandler innenfor bestemte omgivelser. Med utgangspunkt i dette kan en studere hvordan det genereres samhandlingsmønstre o…
Michele Lamont: How Professors Think
How Professors Think is a book about how committees conduct peer reviews of funding applications on behalf of several research funding agencies in the United States. Peer reviews lie at the heart of academia. As all readers of this journal will know, review panels make use of expert opinions and select ad hoc reviewers to determine which projects and researchers will be granted some of the scarce funds available for social science research. The b…
Nordic Register Data and Their Untapped Potential for Criminological Knowledge
The Nordic countries have developed similar advanced register data systems for purposes of producing official statistics and research. The register’s advantages in criminological research include the ability to maintain data on the total population; the possibility of studying small subpopulations; a virtually continuous timeline in longitudinal data sets; using panel data designs with no sample attrition; having few or no nonresponses or other m…
Does Community Context Have an Important Impact on Divorce Risk? A Fixed-Effects Study of Twenty Norwegian First-Marriage Cohorts
The decision to divorce may be affected by the characteristics of the local community. Community characteristics may be barriers to divorce, or they may increase the attractiveness of divorcing (e.g., access to a good remarriage market), but our knowledge of such influences is sparse. This study examines two such community-level factors: socio-economic conditions and the local marriage market. In this study, discrete-time hazard models with commu…
Pooling of Economic Resources: A Comparison of Norwegian Married and Cohabiting Couples
Using Norwegian survey data (n = 4116), we study couples’ likelihood of pooling their economic resources. The proportion of cohabiting couples to married couples is high in Norway. In addition, over the last decades, tax policy and the social security system have moved in the direction of equating cohabitation with marriage. Our knowledge about the ways in which these two different kinds of couples organize their economic resources is, however, r…
Family Life History and Late Mid-Life Mortality in Norway
Using data on all Norwegians born 1935-68, we analyze the associations between mortality and a combined indicator of fertility and marital or partnership status and history. The focus is on ages 40-73 and the years 1980-2008 (30 million person-years of observations and 117,000 deaths). Among men in first marriages, the childless have 36 percent higher mortality than those with two or more children. The corresponding figure for women is 61 percent…
Labor and Love: Wives' Employment and Divorce Risk in its Socio-Political Context
We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is…
Crime and The Transition to Parenthood: The Role of Sex and Relationship Context
Research on desistance from crime has given little attention to the transition to parenthood as a ‘turning point.’ Parenthood might have different implications for men and women, as well as for individuals in different relationship contexts. Using a within-individual design and Norwegian register data on men and women who became parents in 1997–2001, we provide detailed descriptions of offending patterns. The results imply that, for men and women…
Transaksjonsdata fra sosiale medier – En introduksjon med et eksempel om nettverk av stortingspolitikere
Crime and the Transition to Marriage: The Role of the Spouse’s Criminal Involvement
Influential perspectives in life course criminology maintain that marriage leads to desistance from crime, and the mechanisms are largely related to spousal social control. Whether and to what degree marriage represents a break from a criminal past might depend on the spouse’s criminal attitude. We study how changes in offending are related to marriage, and how the patterns vary by the wife’s criminal record. We use data from Norwegian administra…
Proceed With Caution? Parents' Union Dissolution and Children's Educational Achievement
Using high-quality Norwegian register data on 49,879 children from 23,655 families, the authors estimated sibling fixed-effects models to explore whether children who are younger at the time of a parental union dissolution perform less well academically, as measured by their grades at age 16, than their older siblings who have spent more time living with both biological parents. Results from a baseline model suggest a positive age gradient that i…
Does Marriage Reduce Crime
The “marriage effect” is one of the most widely studied topics of life course criminology. The contemporary consensus is that marriage promotes desistance from crime. Most of the 58 studies reviewed here find a negative longitudinal association between marriage and crime. The results are more consistent among men. Studies that attend to relationship quality, such as the level of marital attachment, tend to produce particularly strong associations…
Norsk sosiologforenings hederspris for 2016 til Trond Petersen
In sickness and in health: The role of marital partners in cancer survival
Married cancer patients enjoy a survival advantage, potentially attributable to better health at diagnosis, earlier contact with health personnel, and/or access to resources to ensure more optimal treatment. These mechanisms only invoke the mere presence of a partner, but partners bring varying amounts of resources into the household. It is likely that also spousal resources contribute to differentials in survival net of own resources, as gradien…
Intergenerational transmission of age at first birth in Norway
Using data from administrative registers, we examine the intergenerational transmission of timing of first birth in Norway for all men and women born between 1954 and 1964. We assess the extent of any intergenerational transmission using discrete-time event history analysis, and estimate associations between the age at first birth of parents and their children. Results suggest that intergenerational transmission of age at first birth is evident i…
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