Éva Beaujouan
Biographic Data
| ID | 248955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Éva Beaujouan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Éva |
| FAMILY NAME | Beaujouan |
| SIGNATURE | BEAUJOUAN É |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vienna Institute of Demography |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3072-4336 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 613 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
How will reproductive technology change the future of reproduction?
This summary outlines the main debates from a round table discussion at the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2024 in Vienna on the societal implications of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the context of delayed parenthood. While ART provides new reproductive opportunities, it also raises important ethical, social and political questions concerning access, regulation, reproductive agency and the commercialisation of fertility treatment. Th…
Partners’ age differences and first birth transitions by age at first and second union in Europe
We examine the link between the partners’ age difference and the transition to the first birth in Europe, addressing a gap that typically considers age differences and fertility as separate research areas. Analysing GGS-II, we show that this association is moderated by age at union formation. For first unions formed before age 30, partners’ age differences show only a minimal association with births. For first unions formed later, regional patter…
Perceptions of Medically Assisted Reproduction and Fertility Postponement: Limited Evidence, Critical Questions
The number of women using medically assisted reproduction (MAR) is rising in high-income countries. This trend is partly driven by the tendency to delay childbearing, yet infertility treatments cannot compensate for the decrease in reproductive capacity with age. Scholars are currently concerned that the increasing availability of MAR is fuelling the misconception that it can extend reproductive life. High confidence in the success of MAR later i…
Another child? Determinants and timing of fertility for parents of a child with a disability
Discovering that a child has a disability at birth or during the early years and caring for the child, can have emotional, financial, and organisational consequences for parents, potentially affecting family plans and behaviours. This paper examines how having a child with a disability relates to subsequent fertility among parents in France. It considers both whether and when a subsequent birth occurs by parity, and how this varies according to m…
Infertility and Unrealized Ideal Family Size
Research indicates that people often end their childbearing years with fewer children than they had expected in young adulthood. However, our understanding of the role of infertility in explaining this discrepancy remains limited. Using data from 10 low‐fertility countries included in the second round of the Generations and Gender Survey, this study examines the correspondence between ideal and actual family size among men and women, as well as t…
The Diffusion of Late Fertility Across European Regions (2006–2018)
The rise in late fertility has emerged as a landmark trend in high-income countries in recent decades. Yet, its spread has been geographically uneven, which has largely been attributed to socioeconomic contextual factors. Our study introduces a new perspective: the role of spatial diffusion processes. We exploit the regional variation in the increase in the contribution of late fertility rates to total fertility to assess whether a region follows…
Self-assessed Physical and Mental Health and Fertility Expectations of Men and Women Across the Life Course
The fertility expectations of older women and men are becoming increasingly important for understanding fertility dynamics, given the increasing share of births after age 30. Because most health conditions deteriorate with age, understanding the relationship between health and fertility expectations is essential. We investigate whether changes in self-assessed general, physical, and mental health are linked to revised fertility expectations and h…
First reproductive experience: A survey module
BACKGROUNDThe first reproductive experience, particularly its timing, shapes reproductive pathways and the number of children a person has.However, most surveys that record childbearing histories do not ask about this formative initial experience. OBJECTIVEThis questionnaire module on first reproductive experiences aims to improve the understanding of women's and men's reproductive pathways by capturing the timing, sequence, and outcomes of the f…
Change in the perceived reproductive age window and delayed fertility in Europe
While extensive literature documents the massive fertility delay of recent decades, knowledge about whether and how attitudes towards the timing of births have changed in Europe remains limited. Using data from two rounds of the European Social Survey, we investigate these changes and their association with macro-level fertility indicators in 21 countries. Between 2006-07 and 2018-19, societal consensus regarding the existence of optimal childbea…
Belonging to the neighbourhood, residential mobility, and the transition to parenthood
The sense of belonging to the current neighbourhood may play a role in the transition to parenthood by indicating a feeling of being 'at home' and having access to social resources. However, previous research has indicated that individuals often move house in anticipation of parenthood, likely altering their connection to the neighbourhood in the process. With data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009-23) and using logit regression, we …
Scenarios of Delayed First Births and Associated Cohort Fertility Levels
Fertility rates among individuals in their 20s have fallen sharply across Europe over the past 50 years. The implications of delayed first births for fertility levels in modern family regimes remain little understood. Using microsimulation models of childbearing and partnership for the 1970–1979 birth cohorts in Italy, Great Britain, Sweden, and Norway, we implement fictive scenarios that reduce the risk of having a first child before age 30 and …
Explaining the urban–rural gradient in later fertility in Europe
Demographic research shows that, in Europe, fertility takes place later and is lower in cities than in rural areas. One might expect fertility to be delayed in urban areas because of longer periods in education and enhanced career opportunities. We, therefore, examine how prevalent later fertility (35+ and 40+) is along the urban-rural axis, and whether differences can be explained by economic, cultural and compositional factors. We estimate mult…
Polarized adult fertility patterns following early parental death
Death of a parent during childhood has become rare in developed countries but remains an important life course event that may have consequences for family formation. This paper describes the link between parental death before age 18 and fertility outcomes in adulthood. Using the large national 2011 French Family Survey (INSEE-INED), we focus on the 1946-66 birth cohorts, for whom we observe entire fertility histories. The sample includes 11,854 r…
Delayed first births and completed fertility across the 1940-1969 birth cohorts
The rise in the age at first birth has been universal in low-fertility countries in the last decades. Mothers who have their first child later tend to have fewer children, and in the absence of fertility catch-up at older ages, delayed fertility contribute
Transitions to Second Birth and Birth Intervals in France and Spain: Time Squeeze or Social Norms
As first births are increasingly postponed across Europe, a strong two-child family norm persists. Past research has examined educational differentials in progressions to second birth, testing various hypotheses but overlooking normative aspects. Comparing fertility surveys from France and Spain, we explore whether late first-time mothers, who have fewer reproductive biological years left to conceive, accelerate the transition to a subsequent chi…
Is Two Still Best? Change in Parity-Specific Fertility Across Education in Low-Fertility Countries
The dominance of two-child families is considered an intrinsic characteristic of low fertility societies. Their share was continuously increasing among baby boom cohorts but the rise ceased afterwards. While parity- and education-specific fertility trends during the expansion of the two-child families have been studied, corresponding analyses of developments in the post-expansion birth cohorts are scarce. This study investigates the parity-specif…
De la mise en couple à la première naissance. Le rôle de l'âge à la première cohabitation dans l'entrée en maternité et en paternité
La formation du couple et la première naissance sont des événements étroitement liés, mais les logiques sociales, dont l'âge à la mise en couple peut être le reflet, sont peu discutées. À partir de l'enquête Étude des parcours individuels et conjugaux (Épic, Ined-Insee, 2013-2014), cet article examine le rôle de l'âge à la première cohabitation sur la survenue d'une première naissance et son calendrier, en tenant compte des caractéristiques des p…
Late fertility intentions increase over time in Austria, but chances to have a child at later ages remain low
Childbearing takes place at increasingly older ages, and fertility is continuing to decrease across female birth cohorts. This study investigated whether the proportion of women who unintentionally forwent childbearing increased over time, and linked this to the age profile of fertility intentions and realization among men and women. This study was based on the Austrian Micro-Censuses (1986-2016) and on the Austrian Generations and Gender Surveys…
Assessing Short-Term Fertility Intentions and Their Realisation Using the Generations and Gender Survey: Pitfalls and Challenges
The use of fertility intention questions to study individual childbearing behaviour has developed rapidly in recent decades. In Europe, the Generations and Gender Surveys are the main sources of cross-national data on fertility intentions and their realisation. This study investigates how an inconsistent implementation of a question about wanting a child now affects the cross-country comparability of intentions to have a child within the next thr…
Simulating family life courses: An application for Italy, Great Britain, Norway, and Sweden
Family patterns in Western countries have changed substantially across birth cohorts. The spread of unmarried cohabitation, the decline and postponement of marriage and fertility, and the rise in nonmarital births, partnership instability, and repartnering
Latest-Late Fertility? Decline and Resurgence of Late Parenthood Across the Low-Fertility Countries
After decades of fertility postponement, we investigate recent changes in late parenthood across low-fertility countries in the light of observations from the past. We use long series of age-specific fertility rates from the Human Fertility Database (1950-2016) for women, and new data covering the period 1990-2016 for men. In 1950, the contribution of births at age 40 and over to female fertility rates ranged from 2.5 to 9 percent, but then fell …
The Gap Between Lifetime Fertility Intentions and Completed Fertility in Europe and the United States: A Cohort Approach
We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 19 European countries and the US based on a cohort approach. This complements prior research that had mainly used a period approach. We compare the mean intended number of children among young women aged 20 to 24 (born in the early 1970s), measured during the 1990s in the Fertility and Family Surveys, with data on completed fertility in the same cohorts around age 40. In a simila…
Contribution of the Rise in Cohabiting Parenthood to Family Instability: Cohort Change in Italy, Great Britain, and Scandinavia
In this study, we investigate through microsimulation the link between cohabiting parenthood and family instability. We identify mechanisms through which increases in cohabiting parenthood may contribute to overall increases in separation among parents, linking micro-level processes to macro-level outcomes. Analyses are based on representative surveys in Italy, Great Britain, and Scandinavia (represented by Norway and Sweden), with full histories…
Is the Family Size of Parents and Children Still Related? Revisiting the Cross-Generational Relationship Over the Last Century
In most developed countries, the fertility levels of parents and children are positively correlated. This article analyzes the strength of the intergenerational transmission of family size over the last century, including a focus on this reproduction in large and small families. Using the large-scale French Family Survey (2011), we show a weak but significant correlation of approximately 0.12–0.15, which is comparable with levels in other Western…
Seeding the gender revolution: Women's education and cohort fertility among the baby boom generations
In Europe and the United States, women's educational attainment started to increase around the middle of the twentieth century. The expected implication was fertility decline and postponement, whereas in fact the opposite occurred. We analyse trends in the quantum of cohort fertility among the baby boom generations in 15 countries and how these relate to women's education. Over the 1901-45 cohorts, the proportion of parents with exactly two child…
Two Is Best? The Persistence of a Two‐Child Family Ideal in Europe
How persistent and universal has the two child family ideal been in Europe during the last three decades? We analyze responses of women of reproductive age from 168 surveys conducted in 37 countries in 1979–2012. A two‐child ideal has become nearly universal among women in all parts of Europe. Countries that used to display higher ideal family size have converged over time toward a two‐child model. Six out of ten women in Europe consider two chil…
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 …
Neither single, nor in a couple. A study of living apart together in France
Among living arrangements, living apart together relationships arouse curiosity on the part of sociologists, demographers and even the media. From a scientific point of view, how have noncohabiting relationships evolved in recent decades? How can we re
Cohort fertility decline in low fertility countries: Decomposition using parity progression ratios
The long-term decline in cohort fertility in highly developed countries has been widely documented. However, no systematic analysis has investigated which parity contributed most to the fertility decline to low and very low levels
The Gap Between Lifetime Fertility Intentions and Completed Fertility in Europe and the United States: A Cohort Approach
We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 19 European countries and the US based on a cohort approach. This complements prior research that had mainly used a period approach. We compare the mean intended number of children among young women aged 20 to 24 (born in the early 1970s), measured during the 1990s in the Fertility and Family Surveys, with data on completed fertility in the same cohorts around age 40. In a simila…
Latest-Late Fertility? Decline and Resurgence of Late Parenthood Across the Low-Fertility Countries
After decades of fertility postponement, we investigate recent changes in late parenthood across low-fertility countries in the light of observations from the past. We use long series of age-specific fertility rates from the Human Fertility Database (1950-2016) for women, and new data covering the period 1990-2016 for men. In 1950, the contribution of births at age 40 and over to female fertility rates ranged from 2.5 to 9 percent, but then fell …
Educational differences in timing and quantum of childbearing in Britain: A study of cohorts born 1940−1969
Increased postponement of fertility, especially among higher-educated women, means it is important to know whether women recuperate births at older ages, but evidence for the UK is lacking. The extent to which the timing and quantum of mothersâ fertility u
Rising Educational Participation and the Trend to Later Childbearing
The limited effect of increasing educational attainment on childlessness trends in twentieth-century Europe, women born 1916–65
During the twentieth century, trends in childlessness varied strongly across European countries while educational attainment grew continuously across them. Using census and large-scale survey data from 13 European countries, we investigated the relationship between these two factors among women born between 1916 and 1965. Up to the 1940 birth cohort, the share of women childless at age 40+ decreased universally. Afterwards, the trends diverged ac…
Education and Cohabitation in Britain: A Return to Traditional Patterns
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.…
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…
Racing Against the Biological Clock? Childbearing and Sterility Among Men and Women in Second Unions in France: Une course contre la montre? Fécondité et stérilité des hommes et des femmes en seconde …
Contribution of the Rise in Cohabiting Parenthood to Family Instability: Cohort Change in Italy, Great Britain, and Scandinavia
In this study, we investigate through microsimulation the link between cohabiting parenthood and family instability. We identify mechanisms through which increases in cohabiting parenthood may contribute to overall increases in separation among parents, linking micro-level processes to macro-level outcomes. Analyses are based on representative surveys in Italy, Great Britain, and Scandinavia (represented by Norway and Sweden), with full histories…
La fécondité des deuxièmes unions en France: Âges Des Conjoints Et Autres Facteurs
En France comme dans le reste de l'Europe, les trajectoires familiales se sont diversifiées. Comment la descendance se forme-t-elle dans des trajectoires conjugales plus complexes, et notamment comment les mécanismes de fécondité se déclinent-ils chez les hommes et les femmes lorsqu'ils vivent avec un deuxième conjoint ? Cet article apporte des éléments de réponse en utilisant les données de l'enquête Études des relations familiales et intergénér…
Seeding the gender revolution: Women's education and cohort fertility among the baby boom generations
In Europe and the United States, women's educational attainment started to increase around the middle of the twentieth century. The expected implication was fertility decline and postponement, whereas in fact the opposite occurred. We analyse trends in the quantum of cohort fertility among the baby boom generations in 15 countries and how these relate to women's education. Over the 1901-45 cohorts, the proportion of parents with exactly two child…
Second-Union Fertility in France: Partners' Age and Other Factors
In France, as in the rest of Europe, family trajectories have become increasingly diversified. How does childbearing fit into these more complex conjugal patterns? More specifically, what is the impact of repartnering on men's and women's fertility? This article attempts to answer these questions, drawing on data yielded by the French version of the Generations and Gender Survey (Étude des relations familiales et intergénérationnelles, ERFI, INED…
Change in the perceived reproductive age window and delayed fertility in Europe
While extensive literature documents the massive fertility delay of recent decades, knowledge about whether and how attitudes towards the timing of births have changed in Europe remains limited. Using data from two rounds of the European Social Survey, we investigate these changes and their association with macro-level fertility indicators in 21 countries. Between 2006-07 and 2018-19, societal consensus regarding the existence of optimal childbea…
Is the Family Size of Parents and Children Still Related? Revisiting the Cross-Generational Relationship Over the Last Century
In most developed countries, the fertility levels of parents and children are positively correlated. This article analyzes the strength of the intergenerational transmission of family size over the last century, including a focus on this reproduction in large and small families. Using the large-scale French Family Survey (2011), we show a weak but significant correlation of approximately 0.12–0.15, which is comparable with levels in other Western…
Explaining the urban–rural gradient in later fertility in Europe
Demographic research shows that, in Europe, fertility takes place later and is lower in cities than in rural areas. One might expect fertility to be delayed in urban areas because of longer periods in education and enhanced career opportunities. We, therefore, examine how prevalent later fertility (35+ and 40+) is along the urban-rural axis, and whether differences can be explained by economic, cultural and compositional factors. We estimate mult…
Delayed first births and completed fertility across the 1940-1969 birth cohorts
The rise in the age at first birth has been universal in low-fertility countries in the last decades. Mothers who have their first child later tend to have fewer children, and in the absence of fertility catch-up at older ages, delayed fertility contribute
Second Unions Now More Stable than First? A Comparison of Separation Risks by Union Order in France
Is Two Still Best? Change in Parity-Specific Fertility Across Education in Low-Fertility Countries
The dominance of two-child families is considered an intrinsic characteristic of low fertility societies. Their share was continuously increasing among baby boom cohorts but the rise ceased afterwards. While parity- and education-specific fertility trends during the expansion of the two-child families have been studied, corresponding analyses of developments in the post-expansion birth cohorts are scarce. This study investigates the parity-specif…
The Diffusion of Late Fertility Across European Regions (2006–2018)
The rise in late fertility has emerged as a landmark trend in high-income countries in recent decades. Yet, its spread has been geographically uneven, which has largely been attributed to socioeconomic contextual factors. Our study introduces a new perspective: the role of spatial diffusion processes. We exploit the regional variation in the increase in the contribution of late fertility rates to total fertility to assess whether a region follows…
Late fertility intentions increase over time in Austria, but chances to have a child at later ages remain low
Childbearing takes place at increasingly older ages, and fertility is continuing to decrease across female birth cohorts. This study investigated whether the proportion of women who unintentionally forwent childbearing increased over time, and linked this to the age profile of fertility intentions and realization among men and women. This study was based on the Austrian Micro-Censuses (1986-2016) and on the Austrian Generations and Gender Surveys…
Self-assessed Physical and Mental Health and Fertility Expectations of Men and Women Across the Life Course
The fertility expectations of older women and men are becoming increasingly important for understanding fertility dynamics, given the increasing share of births after age 30. Because most health conditions deteriorate with age, understanding the relationship between health and fertility expectations is essential. We investigate whether changes in self-assessed general, physical, and mental health are linked to revised fertility expectations and h…
Chapitre 3. Ni seuls ni en couple: Les relations amoureuses non cohabitantes
En France, les formes de vie conjugale se sont diversifiées depuis une quarantaine d’années. Le principal changement par son ampleur a été le développement des unions hors mariage à partir de 1972, d’abord comme mode d’entrée en union, puis comme forme d’union stable. Dès le début des années 1990, neuf couples sur dix se mettaient en ménage sans être mariés et, dix ans plus tard, la moitié des premières naissances avait lieu hors mariage. En 1999…
Neither single, nor in a couple. A study of living apart together in France
Among living arrangements, living apart together relationships arouse curiosity on the part of sociologists, demographers and even the media. From a scientific point of view, how have noncohabiting relationships evolved in recent decades? How can we re
Second-Union Fertility in France: Partners' Age and Other Factors
In France, as in the rest of Europe, family trajectories have become increasingly diversified. How does childbearing fit into these more complex conjugal patterns? More specifically, what is the impact of repartnering on men's and women's fertility? This article attempts to answer these questions, drawing on data yielded by the French version of the Generations and Gender Survey (Étude des relations familiales et intergénérationnelles, ERFI, INED…
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…
La fécondité des deuxièmes unions en France: Âges Des Conjoints Et Autres Facteurs
En France comme dans le reste de l'Europe, les trajectoires familiales se sont diversifiées. Comment la descendance se forme-t-elle dans des trajectoires conjugales plus complexes, et notamment comment les mécanismes de fécondité se déclinent-ils chez les hommes et les femmes lorsqu'ils vivent avec un deuxième conjoint ? Cet article apporte des éléments de réponse en utilisant les données de l'enquête Études des relations familiales et intergénér…
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 …
Racing Against the Biological Clock? Childbearing and Sterility Among Men and Women in Second Unions in France: Une course contre la montre? Fécondité et stérilité des hommes et des femmes en seconde …
Education and Cohabitation in Britain: A Return to Traditional Patterns
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.…
Two Is Best? The Persistence of a Two‐Child Family Ideal in Europe
How persistent and universal has the two child family ideal been in Europe during the last three decades? We analyze responses of women of reproductive age from 168 surveys conducted in 37 countries in 1979–2012. A two‐child ideal has become nearly universal among women in all parts of Europe. Countries that used to display higher ideal family size have converged over time toward a two‐child model. Six out of ten women in Europe consider two chil…
Maureen Baker and Vivienne Elizabeth, Marriage in an Age of Cohabitation: How and When People Tie the Knot in the Twenty-First Century
Educational differences in timing and quantum of childbearing in Britain: A study of cohorts born 1940−1969
Increased postponement of fertility, especially among higher-educated women, means it is important to know whether women recuperate births at older ages, but evidence for the UK is lacking. The extent to which the timing and quantum of mothersâ fertility u
Parcours de familles: L’enquête Étude des relations familiales et intergénérationnelles
Six ans après Portraits de familles, ce deuxième volet de l’Étude des relations familiales et intergénérationnelles (Érfi) retrace les parcours de vie des 10 000 personnes ayant participé à l’enquête. Que sont-elles devenues ? Se sont-elles mises en couple, se sont-elles séparées ? Ont-elles eu des enfants ? Quelle influence a eu leur parcours familial sur leur vie professionnelle, et réciproquement ? Dans quelle mesure les événements de vie acti…
Second Unions Now More Stable than First? A Comparison of Separation Risks by Union Order in France
The limited effect of increasing educational attainment on childlessness trends in twentieth-century Europe, women born 1916–65
During the twentieth century, trends in childlessness varied strongly across European countries while educational attainment grew continuously across them. Using census and large-scale survey data from 13 European countries, we investigated the relationship between these two factors among women born between 1916 and 1965. Up to the 1940 birth cohort, the share of women childless at age 40+ decreased universally. Afterwards, the trends diverged ac…
Rising Educational Participation and the Trend to Later Childbearing
Seeding the gender revolution: Women's education and cohort fertility among the baby boom generations
In Europe and the United States, women's educational attainment started to increase around the middle of the twentieth century. The expected implication was fertility decline and postponement, whereas in fact the opposite occurred. We analyse trends in the quantum of cohort fertility among the baby boom generations in 15 countries and how these relate to women's education. Over the 1901-45 cohorts, the proportion of parents with exactly two child…
Cohort fertility decline in low fertility countries: Decomposition using parity progression ratios
The long-term decline in cohort fertility in highly developed countries has been widely documented. However, no systematic analysis has investigated which parity contributed most to the fertility decline to low and very low levels
The Gap Between Lifetime Fertility Intentions and Completed Fertility in Europe and the United States: A Cohort Approach
We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 19 European countries and the US based on a cohort approach. This complements prior research that had mainly used a period approach. We compare the mean intended number of children among young women aged 20 to 24 (born in the early 1970s), measured during the 1990s in the Fertility and Family Surveys, with data on completed fertility in the same cohorts around age 40. In a simila…
Contribution of the Rise in Cohabiting Parenthood to Family Instability: Cohort Change in Italy, Great Britain, and Scandinavia
In this study, we investigate through microsimulation the link between cohabiting parenthood and family instability. We identify mechanisms through which increases in cohabiting parenthood may contribute to overall increases in separation among parents, linking micro-level processes to macro-level outcomes. Analyses are based on representative surveys in Italy, Great Britain, and Scandinavia (represented by Norway and Sweden), with full histories…
Is the Family Size of Parents and Children Still Related? Revisiting the Cross-Generational Relationship Over the Last Century
In most developed countries, the fertility levels of parents and children are positively correlated. This article analyzes the strength of the intergenerational transmission of family size over the last century, including a focus on this reproduction in large and small families. Using the large-scale French Family Survey (2011), we show a weak but significant correlation of approximately 0.12–0.15, which is comparable with levels in other Western…
Latest-Late Fertility? Decline and Resurgence of Late Parenthood Across the Low-Fertility Countries
After decades of fertility postponement, we investigate recent changes in late parenthood across low-fertility countries in the light of observations from the past. We use long series of age-specific fertility rates from the Human Fertility Database (1950-2016) for women, and new data covering the period 1990-2016 for men. In 1950, the contribution of births at age 40 and over to female fertility rates ranged from 2.5 to 9 percent, but then fell …
Late fertility intentions increase over time in Austria, but chances to have a child at later ages remain low
Childbearing takes place at increasingly older ages, and fertility is continuing to decrease across female birth cohorts. This study investigated whether the proportion of women who unintentionally forwent childbearing increased over time, and linked this to the age profile of fertility intentions and realization among men and women. This study was based on the Austrian Micro-Censuses (1986-2016) and on the Austrian Generations and Gender Surveys…
Assessing Short-Term Fertility Intentions and Their Realisation Using the Generations and Gender Survey: Pitfalls and Challenges
The use of fertility intention questions to study individual childbearing behaviour has developed rapidly in recent decades. In Europe, the Generations and Gender Surveys are the main sources of cross-national data on fertility intentions and their realisation. This study investigates how an inconsistent implementation of a question about wanting a child now affects the cross-country comparability of intentions to have a child within the next thr…
Simulating family life courses: An application for Italy, Great Britain, Norway, and Sweden
Family patterns in Western countries have changed substantially across birth cohorts. The spread of unmarried cohabitation, the decline and postponement of marriage and fertility, and the rise in nonmarital births, partnership instability, and repartnering
Is Two Still Best? Change in Parity-Specific Fertility Across Education in Low-Fertility Countries
The dominance of two-child families is considered an intrinsic characteristic of low fertility societies. Their share was continuously increasing among baby boom cohorts but the rise ceased afterwards. While parity- and education-specific fertility trends during the expansion of the two-child families have been studied, corresponding analyses of developments in the post-expansion birth cohorts are scarce. This study investigates the parity-specif…
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