J Saarela
Biographic Data
| ID | 52456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Saarela |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Saarela |
| SIGNATURE | SAARELA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Åbo Akademi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8313-4271 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Returns to Returning with Sibling Comparisons: Register-Based Evidence from Finland
How experience of migration affects the labor market outcome after remigration is difficult to examine because both migration and remigration processes are driven by various mechanisms of selection. In this study, we investigate the labor market outcomes of return migration in Finland in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. With Finnish register data covering the period 1987–2019, we use a counterfactual sibling fixed-effects design that compa…
Gendered work and family trajectories: How do STEM graduates fare in the labor market
Although research on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields has extensively examined gender inequality in participation, its implications for longer-term work trajectories and gender earnings gaps remain unclear. Given the strong interconnection between work and family life, it is crucial to study gender disparities in STEM from a life course perspective. In response, we exploit longitudinal Finnish register data to asses…
Parental Birth Order and the First Stage of Tracking Into Schools: Evidence From General Upper Secondary Educational Attainment in Finland
No previous study on the interrelation between parental birth order and offspring educational attainment has analysed the first stage of tracking into schools, which in many countries is highly selective of persons who aim for university studies. We do so and examine how parental birth order is associated with attainment of general upper secondary education in Finland. Three‐generational register data on the total population are used to assess ho…
Ethnolinguistic affiliation and migration: Evidence from multigenerational population registers
The empirical base for understanding how cultural and linguistic proximity shape international migration remains limited. We assess how individuals’ migration and return migration behavior differs by own and parental ethnolinguistic affiliation, using Finnish longitudinal population register data that cover 1987–2020 (N= 1,822,484). Information on two generations allows us to distinguish between Finnish-born individuals with uniform and mixed bac…
Life expectancy by religious affiliation in Finland 1972-2020
Background: Religion and religiosity are known as important determinants of health and mortality. Previous studies on the interrelation between religion and mortality have relied on survey data or small cohort samples, and they have mainly been carried out in a North American setting. Objective: We provide a register-based study of life expectancy by religious affiliation for a total national population over the course of five decades. Methods: W…
Ethnic registration and tertiary-level education of children of mixed native couples: Register-based evidence from Finland
Using population register data, we examine how intermarried parents' choice of ethnic registration of their children is associated with the offspring's probability of having a tertiary-level education. The study context concerns two ethnic groups, Finnish speakers and Swedish speakers in Finland, which are native and have equal constitutional rights, but have unequal admittance rates to tertiary-level education. We find that a mixed background pe…
Divorce among more and less divorce-prone populations following unilateral divorce laws
ObjectiveThis study analyzes heterogeneity in divorce rates after the 1987 transition from mutual consent to unilateral no-fault divorce in Finland.BackgroundMarriage and divorce legislation can impact divorce rates. However, some groups may be more responsive to changes in legal context than others. We propose that unilateral no-fault divorce laws either (a) increase divorce more in more or less divorce-prone groups, or (b) increase divorce equa…
Kinship, heritage, and ethnic choice: Ethnolinguistic registration across four generations in contemporary Finland
We studied how individuals' ethnolinguistic affiliation relates to the ethnolinguistic structure of kinship in contemporary Finland, a society in which Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking ethnolinguistic groups have coexisted for centuries and mixed marital unions are common. Using multigenerational data from the population register, we determined how the ethnolinguistic registration of children born in 1990-2015 relates to three generations of…
Bereavement due to child loss, divorce, and depressive mood in older age across European welfare regimes
While bereavement, particularly the loss of a child, is a well-known risk factor for mental health in the short term, its long-term consequences on depressive mood in old age and across different welfare regimes have been investigated less. This study focused on the combined role of child loss and divorce on depressive symptoms, measured using the EURO-D scale in Central, Nordic, Southern, and Eastern European countries. We used data from the Eur…
Earnings mobility across three generations of natives in Finland: A comparison of Finnish and Swedish speakers
We examine earnings mobility across three generations in Finland and compare two native groups with equal constitutional rights, Finnish speakers and Swedish speakers. Based on register data of the total population, we employ rank-rank regressions to assess the degree to which earnings in men relate to their fathers’ and paternal grandfathers’ earnings. We estimate regressions on the national level and in regions with Swedish-speaking population.…
Religion and Fertility: A Longitudinal Register Study Examining Differences by Sex, Parity, Partner’s Religion, and Religious Conversion in Finland
We use longitudinal data on religious affiliation in Finland to examine childbearing behavior. All analyses are based on detailed fertility information from the Finnish national register of each person’s religious denomination for men and women born in 1956–1975. We identify higher fertility according to parity among members of the Evangelical Lutheran state church and other Protestant churches, and lower fertility among individuals with no relig…
First Partner Choice in a Native Minority: The Role of Own and Parental Ethnolinguistic Affiliation
Despite increasing diversity within many societies, ethnically endogamous unions remain common. In contexts where one ethnic minority has lived alongside the majority for centuries, understanding who partners with whom is central to understanding how ethnic boundaries are maintained or dissolved. This study examines the role of own and parental ethnolinguistic affiliation for the first partner choice in Finland. We provide a unique test of the re…
Religion and mental health in young adulthood: A register-based study on differences by religious affiliation in sickness absence due to mental disorders in Finland
Epidemiologists and public health practitioners should further examine the association between mental disorders and church membership using administrative registers
Socioeconomic Advantage or Community Attachment? A Register-Based Study on the Difference in National Lutheran Church Affiliation Between Finnish and Swedish Speakers in Finland
Secularization theory has been challenged by research showing religious persistence and upswing in contexts across the world. In Europe, particularly in highly secular and historically religiously homogeneous Nordic settings, there has been little research, and representative data for minority groups are rare. We offer a pioneering study using national register data to study religious changes over the past five decades in Finland, where the two n…
Born to move? Birth order and emigration
This paper studies the interrelation between birth order and emigration adopting a family fixed-effects approach. We use register data on all persons in full-siblings groups born 1970-2002 in the entire Finnish-born population, and observe their first move abroad since age 18 in the period 1987-2020. The total number of siblings is 1,352,908, the total number of sibling groups 549,842, and the total number of first moves abroad 31,192. By compari…
Geographical immobility and local ancestral ties: A study of three generations of natives in Finland
Research concerning internal migration has increasingly recognized family members outside the household as important factors for mobility decisions. Older generations and familiar environments constitute strong attractors thanks to location-specific capital and exchange of multigenerational support. Less is known about geographical immobility across generations. Wee study immobility patterns across three generations of native Finns by examining p…
Who Migrates and Who Returns in a Context of Free Mobility? An Analysis of the Reason for Migration, Income and Family Trajectories
The establishment of free mobility in Europe has lowered barriers to movement and given rise to diversity in migration and integration patterns. However, in part due to data constraints, it is difficult to study migration motives, integration and return migration together. Using linked Finnish and Swedish register data covering the period 1988–2005, we address these processes within the same framework and study how the reason for migration and tr…
Divorce among exogamous couples: The role of language convergence
This is the first study to use longitudinal population register data to illustrate that marital stability may relate to the adoption of the spouse's language. The paper draws on theories of boundary shifting and boundary crossing to examine two main ancestral groups in Finland, Finnish speakers and Swedish speakers, between whom intermarriage is common. Administrative changes in how the question about language/ethnicity was registered between the…
Effects of sickness absence on disability pension in two ethnolinguistic groups: Register-based evidence from Finland
The Swedish-speaking ethnolinguistic minority in Finland has a health advantage over the Finnish-speaking majority in terms of lower levels of sickness allowance and disability pension receipt. We examine whether this differential has consequences within the social security system by analysing the long-term risk for disability pension after sickness allowance receipt. With longitudinal population-register data covering the period 1989–2010, we ob…
Childlessness Among Heterosexual Partnered Individuals: Register-Based Evidence from the Finnish Cohorts Born 1952–1966
Finland has been a demographic forerunner in terms of the adoption of new family forms as well as family friendly social policies. Childlessness has nevertheless grown and, is high compared to many other countries. A large and increasing share of all persons who live in unions are childless. Using population-register data for the cohorts born 1952–1966, we study persons who were partnered at age 45 (n = 44,321). The aim is to analyse how marital …
Less Is More? Repartnering and Completed Cohort Fertility in Finland
An extensive literature theorizes the role of repartnering for cohort fertility and whether union dissolution can be an engine for fertility. A large share of higher order unions are nonmarital cohabitations, but most previous studies on completed cohort fertility have analyzed only marital unions, and none have incorporated nonmarital cohabitations using population-level data. To analyze the relationship between the number of unions and cohort f…
Forced Migration and the Childbearing of Women and Men: A Disruption of the Tempo and Quantum of Fertility
It is well known that migrant fertility is associated with age at migration, but little is known about this relationship for forced migrants. We study an example of displacement in which the entire population of Finnish Karelia was forced to move elsewhere in Finland in the 1940s. This displacement was unique because of its size and scale, because we have data on almost the whole population of both men and women who moved, and because of the simi…
Sickness Absence and Disability Pension in the Very Long Term: A Finnish Register-Based Study With 20 Years Follow-Up
Sickness allowance is paid for short-term sickness absence and is thus an indicator of temporary ill health, but it is also associated with a heightened risk of receiving disability pension. Using event history analysis, we examined the long-term risk for disability pension receipt after first observed receipt of medically certified sickness allowance in each single year after sickness allowance was first recorded. Utilizing longitudinal data fro…
Ethnic Composition of Couples and Mutual Health Benefit Receipt: Register-Based Evidence from Finland
The literature on health dependencies among partners typically ignores diversity of partnership characteristics. One salient example is the ethnic composition. We extend prior work on partnerships and health by investigating how married and cohabiting partners mutually influence each other's receipt of health-related benefits, focusing on how such correlations vary with the couple's ethnic composition. We study partners' mutual receipt of sicknes…
Life Expectancy of the Ethnically Mixed: Register-Based Evidence from Native Finns
As the ethnic composition around the world is becoming more diverse, the need to produce vital statistics for ethnically mixed populations is continuously increasing. Our aim is to provide the first life expectancy estimates for individuals with uniform Finnish, uniform Swedish, and mixed Finnish-Swedish backgrounds, based on individuals in the native population of Finland who can be linked to both their parents. Life expectancy at birth in the p…
Time Does Not Heal All Wounds: Mortality Following the Death of a Parent
People linked through social ties are known to have interdependent health. Our aim was to investigate such collateral health effects in the context of offspring mortality after a parent's death in children aged 10–59 years. The data (N = 3,753,368) were from a linked-registers database that contains the total Swedish population. In minor children, we found elevations in mortality risks associated with a parent's death. Adult offspring experienced…
Transitions within and from ethno-linguistically mixed and endogamous first unions in Finland
Utilizing longitudinal population register data from Finland, this study examines the influence of exogamy on transitions within and from first unions. The aim is to assess how ethno-linguistically mixed unions, consisting of Swedish speakers and Finnish speakers, differ from endogamous unions with respect to various transitions in the family formation process subsequent to entry into childless cohabitation. We find evidence of notable selection.…
Native Language and Immigrant Labour Market Outcomes: An Alternative Approach to Measuring the Returns for Language Skills
Circular migration in a context of free mobility: Evidence from linked population register data from Finland and Sweden
Circular migration in settings of free mobility has received increasing policy attention. However, due to data constraints, little is known about the mechanisms underlying it. Using linked Finnish and Swedish register data that allow us to follow Finnish migrants across national borders, we analyse whether the determinants of circular migration differ from those of the first and return move. People move freely between Sweden and Finland, as they …
Ethno-Linguistic Exogamy and Divorce: Does Marital Duration Matter
This research examines whether the exogamy effect on the divorce risk varies over marital duration. Registry data from 1970 to 2003 allow us to observe couples in exogamous and endogamous ethno-linguistic marriages (Finnish speakers and Swedish speakers in Finland). We find that an elevated divorce risk of exogamous couples, which has been observed in numerous studies, is not typical of recently initiated marriages only, because it does not atten…
How Integrated are Finns in the Swedish Labour Market? Outcomes of Free Labour Mobility
Due to the agreement of a common Nordic labour market, Finns have for several decades constituted the largest immigrant group in Sweden. However, there have been few studies explicitly concerned with how well they are integrated in the labour market. This paper attempts to fill part of this gap by studying how they succeeded before and after the economic crisis in the 1990s. Employment levels and earnings of Finnish immigrants in prime working ag…
Forced migration and mortality in the very long term: Did perestroika affect death rates also in Finland
In this article, we analyze mortality rates of Finns born in areas that were ceded to the Soviet Union after World War II and from which the entire population was evacuated. These internally displaced persons are observed during the period 1971-2004 and compared with people born in the same region but on the adjacent side of the new border. We find that in the 1970s and 1980s, the forced migrants had mortality rates that were on par with those of…
Transitions Within and From First Unions: Educational Effects in an Extended Winnowing Model
In this article, we study how different transitional phases from childless cohabitation relate to education and educational resemblance of the partners. Using longitudinal population register data from Finland, we extend analyses of previous research to suit the conditions in societies where almost all unions begin before marriage and much childbearing takes place outside marriage. Educationally heterogamous couples are found to have higher separ…
Sex composition of children, parental separation, and parity progression: Is Finland a Nordic outlier
Previous studies that have studied parental gender preferences for children have analysed either divorce or parity progression. We use Finnish register data that make it possible to study both events simultaneously by following the same couples with childr
Mortality in parents following the death of a child: A nationwide follow-up study from Sweden
BACKGROUND: The death of a young child is so devastating that it can increase the risk of mortality in the grieving parent. Little is known about the impact of an adult child's death on the health of parents. METHODS: The authors conducted a follow-up study between 1980 and 2002 based on a linked-registers database that contains the total Swedish population. The authors examined mortality from all causes, natural causes and unnatural causes among…
Geographic Ancestry and Cause-specific Mortality in a National Population
Adjustment failures in an immigrant population: Finns in Sweden
Less Is More? Repartnering and Completed Cohort Fertility in Finland
An extensive literature theorizes the role of repartnering for cohort fertility and whether union dissolution can be an engine for fertility. A large share of higher order unions are nonmarital cohabitations, but most previous studies on completed cohort fertility have analyzed only marital unions, and none have incorporated nonmarital cohabitations using population-level data. To analyze the relationship between the number of unions and cohort f…
Divorce among exogamous couples: The role of language convergence
This is the first study to use longitudinal population register data to illustrate that marital stability may relate to the adoption of the spouse's language. The paper draws on theories of boundary shifting and boundary crossing to examine two main ancestral groups in Finland, Finnish speakers and Swedish speakers, between whom intermarriage is common. Administrative changes in how the question about language/ethnicity was registered between the…
Forced Migration and the Childbearing of Women and Men: A Disruption of the Tempo and Quantum of Fertility
It is well known that migrant fertility is associated with age at migration, but little is known about this relationship for forced migrants. We study an example of displacement in which the entire population of Finnish Karelia was forced to move elsewhere in Finland in the 1940s. This displacement was unique because of its size and scale, because we have data on almost the whole population of both men and women who moved, and because of the simi…
Intergenerational transmission of ethnic identity in mixed native couples in Finland
The aim of this study is to analyse the factors determining the ethnic affiliation of children born to interethnic native couples in Finland, using data from couples with one Finnish-speaking and one Swedish-speaking partner, between 1988 and 2014. In addition to individual characteristics of each partner and contextual factors, we also consider the role of couple characteristics. We look at the affiliation of the first child, as well as the comb…
Mother Tongue, Host Country Earnings, and Return Migration: Evidence from Cross-National Administrative Records
Using a unique database constructed through the merging of administrative records from Sweden and Finland, we provide the first detailed examination of differential return migration risks by people's mother tongue within a given nationality. We analyze whether the divergence in return migration risk between Swedish-speaking and Finnish-speaking Finns in Sweden relates to host country earnings, considering that the former group are in parity with …
Mortality Variation by Birth Region and Ethnicity: An Illustration Based on the Finnish Population Register
Previous research has shown that the persistent regional mortality differences in Finland cannot be attributed to sociodemographic factors, health behaviors, or living conditions at young age. Using longitudinal population register data from Finland, we analyze the effect of birth region and ethnicity on mortality risks in men age 65-74 years and women age 75-84 years. Mortality from ischemic heart disease in particular is found to be highly infl…
Educational mobility across three generations of Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking Finns
Using total population register data that link three generations, this article studies educational mobility in two native ethno-linguistic groups, Finnish speakers and Swedish speakers in Finland. The purpose is to examine how multigenerational educational mobility takes form in a setting with equal constitutional rights, but with relatively more study places in Swedish at the tertiary level. For the cohorts born 1976–1985, the probability of hav…
The International Family Migration of Swedish-Speaking Finns: The Role of Spousal Education
Using population register data from Finland, we study international family migration in the context of moves between two highly developed and gender-equal countries. The focus is on the Swedish-speaking population in Finland, a group with high international migration rates and good labour market prospects in the primary host country, Sweden. The influence of spousal education on emigration and return migration risks is of specific interest. We fi…
Long-term Mortality of War Cohorts: The Case of Finland
Cause-specific mortality at young ages: Lessons from Finland
Mortality inequality in two native population groups
A sample of people aged 40-67 years, taken from a longitudinal register compiled by Statistics Finland, is used to analyse mortality differences between Swedish speakers and Finnish speakers in Finland. Finnish speakers are known to have higher death rates than Swedish speakers. The purpose is to explore whether labour-market experience and partnership status, treated as proxies for measures of variation in health-related characteristics, are rel…
Religion and Fertility: A Longitudinal Register Study Examining Differences by Sex, Parity, Partner’s Religion, and Religious Conversion in Finland
We use longitudinal data on religious affiliation in Finland to examine childbearing behavior. All analyses are based on detailed fertility information from the Finnish national register of each person’s religious denomination for men and women born in 1956–1975. We identify higher fertility according to parity among members of the Evangelical Lutheran state church and other Protestant churches, and lower fertility among individuals with no relig…
Socioeconomic Advantage or Community Attachment? A Register-Based Study on the Difference in National Lutheran Church Affiliation Between Finnish and Swedish Speakers in Finland
Secularization theory has been challenged by research showing religious persistence and upswing in contexts across the world. In Europe, particularly in highly secular and historically religiously homogeneous Nordic settings, there has been little research, and representative data for minority groups are rare. We offer a pioneering study using national register data to study religious changes over the past five decades in Finland, where the two n…
Ethnicity and Unemployment in Finland
This research note provides the general findings from a research project analyzing the reasons behind the lower unemployment rate of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland, compared with the Finnish-speaking majority. The main conclusion is that the unemployment gap cannot be attributed to ethnic-group differences in age, education, place of residence, or industrial structure. We believe that two latent factors are highly relevant in this conte…
Language-group Differences in Very Early Retirement in Finland
The purpose of this paper is to study very early retirement as an indicator for poor health, with focus on a comparison between the two language groups in Finland. Extensive longitudinal data are analysed with the help of random effects probit models
How unemployment duration affects social assistance receipt: Evidence from Finland
This article reports on a study of the impact of unemployment duration on the probability of becoming a social assistance recipient and on the time spent on social assistance. The data are taken from a local Finnish labour market consisting of the cohort of unemployed people at a given date (n = 2,274). The data are linked to information about the number of months recipients received social assistance during the subsequent year. Count data regres…
Welfare participation and welfare dependence among the unemployed
Mortality inequality in two native population groups
A sample of people aged 40-67 years, taken from a longitudinal register compiled by Statistics Finland, is used to analyse mortality differences between Swedish speakers and Finnish speakers in Finland. Finnish speakers are known to have higher death rates than Swedish speakers. The purpose is to explore whether labour-market experience and partnership status, treated as proxies for measures of variation in health-related characteristics, are rel…
How Integrated are Finns in the Swedish Labour Market? Outcomes of Free Labour Mobility
Due to the agreement of a common Nordic labour market, Finns have for several decades constituted the largest immigrant group in Sweden. However, there have been few studies explicitly concerned with how well they are integrated in the labour market. This paper attempts to fill part of this gap by studying how they succeeded before and after the economic crisis in the 1990s. Employment levels and earnings of Finnish immigrants in prime working ag…
Native Language and Immigrant Labour Market Outcomes: An Alternative Approach to Measuring the Returns for Language Skills
Cause-specific mortality at young ages: Lessons from Finland
Adjustment failures in an immigrant population: Finns in Sweden
Cross-country Employment Propensity of Finnish Migrants: Evidence from Linked Register Data
This paper explores how individual employment propensity interrelates across countries and time, using data that link population registers from Sweden and Finland. Migrants are observed before emigration, after emigration, and in a follow-up in cases both where they were still living in the host country and if they had return migrated. The interrelation is found to be strong, suggesting that migrants’ employment problems need not necessarily be d…
Geographic Ancestry and Cause-specific Mortality in a National Population
Forced migration and mortality in the very long term: Did perestroika affect death rates also in Finland
In this article, we analyze mortality rates of Finns born in areas that were ceded to the Soviet Union after World War II and from which the entire population was evacuated. These internally displaced persons are observed during the period 1971-2004 and compared with people born in the same region but on the adjacent side of the new border. We find that in the 1970s and 1980s, the forced migrants had mortality rates that were on par with those of…
Mortality Variation by Birth Region and Ethnicity: An Illustration Based on the Finnish Population Register
Previous research has shown that the persistent regional mortality differences in Finland cannot be attributed to sociodemographic factors, health behaviors, or living conditions at young age. Using longitudinal population register data from Finland, we analyze the effect of birth region and ethnicity on mortality risks in men age 65-74 years and women age 75-84 years. Mortality from ischemic heart disease in particular is found to be highly infl…
Family origin and mortality: Prospective Finnish cohort study
Parental birth area is the driving force behind the regional mortality difference in Finland. The findings highlight and give further support for the potentially important role of genetic risk factors in mortality. Close monitoring of persons' geographic and ethnic ancestry may promote public health and avoid many early deaths
Time Does Not Heal All Wounds: Mortality Following the Death of a Parent
People linked through social ties are known to have interdependent health. Our aim was to investigate such collateral health effects in the context of offspring mortality after a parent's death in children aged 10–59 years. The data (N = 3,753,368) were from a linked-registers database that contains the total Swedish population. In minor children, we found elevations in mortality risks associated with a parent's death. Adult offspring experienced…
Long-term Mortality of War Cohorts: The Case of Finland
Mortality in parents following the death of a child: A nationwide follow-up study from Sweden
BACKGROUND: The death of a young child is so devastating that it can increase the risk of mortality in the grieving parent. Little is known about the impact of an adult child's death on the health of parents. METHODS: The authors conducted a follow-up study between 1980 and 2002 based on a linked-registers database that contains the total Swedish population. The authors examined mortality from all causes, natural causes and unnatural causes among…
The International Family Migration of Swedish-Speaking Finns: The Role of Spousal Education
Using population register data from Finland, we study international family migration in the context of moves between two highly developed and gender-equal countries. The focus is on the Swedish-speaking population in Finland, a group with high international migration rates and good labour market prospects in the primary host country, Sweden. The influence of spousal education on emigration and return migration risks is of specific interest. We fi…
Ethnic Affiliation of Children and the Risk of Union Dissolution
This paper illustrates that the ethnic affiliation of the first-born child can be used to deepen our understanding of ethnic heterogamy effects on unions' dissolution risk. We use longitudinal population register data from Finland that cover the period 1971-2003, consisting of almost 65,000 unions, whereof the number of ethnically mixed unions is 11,365. Those in which a greater proportion of the parents are likely to have made a more deliberate …
Family Formation and Offspring Mortality in Sweden: Evidence From Intergenerational Data on Sibling Groups
Using multigenerational population register data that cover the total Swedish population, we studied relative mortality of offspring whose parents had formed a new family with children. These primarily adult-age children are found to have lower death risks than those with divorced parents who did not form a new family, which highlights that the link between parental family formation and offspring health may be attributed not only to causal factor…
Invited commentary on Death of a child and parental wellbeing in old age: Evidence from Taiwan
Transitions Within and From First Unions: Educational Effects in an Extended Winnowing Model
In this article, we study how different transitional phases from childless cohabitation relate to education and educational resemblance of the partners. Using longitudinal population register data from Finland, we extend analyses of previous research to suit the conditions in societies where almost all unions begin before marriage and much childbearing takes place outside marriage. Educationally heterogamous couples are found to have higher separ…
Sex composition of children, parental separation, and parity progression: Is Finland a Nordic outlier
Previous studies that have studied parental gender preferences for children have analysed either divorce or parity progression. We use Finnish register data that make it possible to study both events simultaneously by following the same couples with childr
Transitions within and from ethno-linguistically mixed and endogamous first unions in Finland
Utilizing longitudinal population register data from Finland, this study examines the influence of exogamy on transitions within and from first unions. The aim is to assess how ethno-linguistically mixed unions, consisting of Swedish speakers and Finnish speakers, differ from endogamous unions with respect to various transitions in the family formation process subsequent to entry into childless cohabitation. We find evidence of notable selection.…
Exogamy
In sociology, exogamy refers to the custom or act of marrying a person who belongs to another tribe, clan, or similar social unit. The concept implies a social arrangement outside a social group, according to which the social group defines the scope and extent of the phenomenon. The continuity of exogamy in a population is ensured by rules and enforcement mechanisms
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