Ann Berrington
Biographic Data
| ID | 76452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Berrington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Berrington |
| SIGNATURE | BERRINGTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1683-6668 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 501 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Socioeconomic, educational, family, perinatal and developmental early life domains as predictors of obesity and hypertension comorbidity: Findings from the 1970 British cohort study (BCS70)
Early life experiences can interact with each other and shape long-term health outcomes. To inform prevention strategies, we grouped early life risk factors into conceptual domains and investigated how exposures across five predefined early life domains predict the development of obesity and hypertension comorbidity in adulthood. This paper builds on a previously published conceptual framework which views early-life influences as multidimensional…
Employment stability and social origin: Cumulative advantages in young adults’ homeownership and financial asset accumulation
Millennials experience marked intra-cohort inequalities in asset ownership. In line with the cumulative advantage theory, we posit that school-to-work (STW) transitions and social origins are joint drivers of these disparities. Using prospective longitudinal data from the UK, we employ sequence and cluster analysis to develop a typology of STW trajectories (age 16-25). We then estimate the relationship between this typology and homeownership and …
The Changing Educational Gradient in Nontraditional Attitudes toward Family Behavior: A Cross‐National Study
The second demographic transition (SDT) theory highlights how nontraditional family behaviors first emerged in Nordic countries and diffused elsewhere. Cross‐national variations in approval of such behaviors across educational groups and changes over time remain underexplored, however. Using European Social Survey data (2006, 2018) from 21 countries, we examine approval of voluntary childlessness, nonmarital cohabitation, nonmarital childbearing,…
Labour market insecurity and parental co-residence in the United Kingdom: Heterogeneities by parental class and age
Amidst young adults’ increasing labour market insecurity and rates of parental co-residence, this article examines how unemployment and underexplored forms of non-standard employment (NSE)—underemployment and temporary and agency work (TAW)—are associated with inter-generational co-residence in the United Kingdom. Refining the feathered nest/gilded cage hypothesis to incorporate forms of non-NSE, we analyse how parental social class moderates thi…
How Do Parents Share Childcare That Interferes With Paid Work? Work Arrangements, Flexible Working, and Childcare
Objective This study examines how mothers and fathers divide childcare tasks that interfere with paid work and whether there is an association with patterns of work and access to work flexibility. Background Childcare encompasses a range of diverse tasks, yet is persistently gendered, with women doing more than men, regardless of work arrangements. Flexible working can exacerbate childcare inequalities among working couples, but less is known abo…
The changing inter-relationship between partnership dynamics and fertility trends in Europe and the United States: A review
BACKGROUNDProfound shifts in partnership and fertility in recent decades call for a re-examination of the linkages between partnership and fertility dynamics. OBJECTIVEThis review systemizes the literature across Europe and the United States studying the intersection between partnership and fertility, providing a roadmap accessible across disciplines.We categorize the pathways through which partnerships and childbearing are linked according to di…
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 …
Long-term fertility trends by birth order in Britain: Comparison between England & Wales and Scotland
This study uses census-linked administrative data to investigate childbearing trends by birth order in Britain over three decades. This is the first study to investigate longer-term changes in fertility dynamics in Britain by birth order and to compare parity-specific fertility by country. First-birth rates declined in the 1990s, slightly increased in the first decade of this century, and decreased thereafter, with changes in timing of parenthood…
Living in precarious partnerships: Understanding how young men's and women's economic precariousness contribute to outcomes of first cohabitation
In the UK, cohabitation has become the normative type of first co-residential partnership. While some couples go on to marry, others increasingly continue to cohabit or break up. One possible explanation is the rise in young people's economic precariousness. However, few studies have analysed this hypothesis empirically for the UK. By analysing data on cohabiting couple dyads from 1991 to 2019, we explore how economic precariousness (measured by …
Risk factors for ill health: How do we specify what is ‘modifiable’
If you work in public health or epidemiology, you will be familiar with the term 'modifiable risk factors'. Searching PubMed in December 2023 for titles that included the term 'modifiable risk' returned 1222 results. Expanding this search to include both titles and abstracts returned 13,958 results. The term often refers to health behaviours such as smoking, alcohol intake, exercise, and diet. However, there does not seem to be a specific definit…
Educational Gradient of Multi-partner Fertility: First Estimates for the UK
Recent demographic changes in Western countries have resulted in higher rates of partnership dissolution and serial partnering, and an increase in childbearing across multiple partnerships. This has given rise to more complex family dynamics including multi-partner fertility (MPF), defined as having biological children with two or more partners. Yet estimates of MPF in the UK have not previously been available. This paper describes an ‘indirect a…
Educational trends in cohort fertility by birth order: A comparison of England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
BACKGROUNDOver the past few decades, cohort fertility rates in the different countries of the United Kingdom (England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland) have diverged, yet the role of parity-specific patterns, including childlessness, is not known.Studies across Europe have found a reversal in the educational gradient of childlessness from positive to negative, which has been attributed to economic uncertainty, new patterns of parity prog…
For better or worse: Economic strain, furlough, and relationship quality during the Covid‐19 lockdown
Objective This study evaluates the role of objective and subjective measures of economic uncertainty, as well as furlough schemes, on changes in couples' relationships during the first lockdown in the UK. Background Most theories of relationship quality argue that economic uncertainty strains intimate relationships, leading to a deterioration in relationship quality. Few studies capture such an intense period of economic uncertainty, and the role…
Education and Fertility: A Review of Recent Research in Europe
This paper reviews research on education and childbearing in Europe over the last decade. Early demographic research attributed declining fertility in advanced economies in the second half of the twentieth century to increasing female educational levels. The twenty-first century has witnessed further increases in educational attainment coupled with trend reversals in fertility. The relationship between education and fertility has become more comp…
Uncertain steps into adulthood: Does economic precariousness hinder entry into the first co-residential partnership in the UK
This study uses prospective data spanning 27 years (1991-2018) to explore the relationship between economic precariousness and transitions to first co-residential partnership among Britons aged 18-34 across three dimensions: age, historical time, and sex. Economic precariousness is measured using eight objective and subjective indicators, including income, employment, housing, and financial perceptions. Our results show that economic precariousne…
Investigating the application of generalized additive models to discrete-time event history analysis for birth events
Discrete-time event history analysis (EHA) is the standard approach taken when modelling fertility histories collected in surveys, where the date of birth is often recorded imprecisely. This method is commonly used to investigate the factors associated wit
Scenario‐based fertility projections incorporating impacts of Covid‐19
This paper examines the recent declines in period fertility in the constituent countries of the UK during the past decade and speculates mechanisms through which the COVID‐19 pandemic could influence childbearing in the UK. The effects are likely to differ by age and presence of children. Considering potential forces acting on individuals at different ages and family sizes, we expect that the COVID‐19 pandemic will depress fertility, particularly…
The Changing Association Between Homeownership and the Transition to Parenthood
The literature suggests a positive link between homeownership and the transition to parenthood. However, in recent decades, couples' preference for becoming homeowners before having their first child has been undermined by rising housing unaffordability and housing uncertainty. An archetypal example is Britain, where homeownership rates among young adults have fallen substantially as a result of low wages, unemployment, reductions in the availabi…
Understanding the decline in under-18 conception rates throughout England's local authorities between 1998 and 2017
We consider England's two-decade teenage conception decline in the context of societal changes: rising educational aspirations; growing second- and third-generation teenage ethnic minority populations; increased deprivation associated with economic recession and post-2008 Government austerity; and changing housing availability. Using England's Local Authority Districts (LAD) 1998-2017, we explore the role of area characteristics in explaining spa…
Longitudinal life course perspectives on housing inequality in young adulthood
In many countries, there is growing public concern about the increasing difficulties that young people face in obtaining secure, affordable, high-quality, and well-located housing. Much of the analysis and discussion focuses on the ways in which intergenerational housing inequalities have deepened over time as young adults' fortunes have deteriorated, most obviously through declining access to homeownership. In this review, we showcase how resear…
Expectations for family transitions in young adulthood among the UK second generation
This paper explores whether family transitions among descendants of post second-world-war immigrants are converging towards those of white British young adults by examining family formation expectations among 16-21 year-olds collected within the 2009-2015 waves of Understanding Society. We ask: Do current adolescents’ cohabitation, marriage and parenthood expectations differ by ethnic group? Are differences similar for men and women? Are ethnic d…
The role of education in the intersection of partnership transitions and motherhood in Europe and the United States
Previous research has shown that partnership status at first birth is associated with education across Europe and the United States. Most research has indicated that first births within cohabitation have a negative educational gradient. However, the pathwa
Cross-national differences in women's repartnering behaviour in Europe: The role of individual demographic characteristics
With rising union instability across Europe, more individuals now re-enter the partner market and eventually repartner. The increase in cohabitation may also be influencing repartnering behaviour. While several studies examine individual-level characterist
The Rise in Divorce and Cohabitation: Is There a Link
Over the past decades, divorce and cohabitation have increased dramatically throughout Europe. Divorce has fundamentally altered the institution of marriage from a life-long union to one that may dissolve. Cohabitation allows couples to live together without undertaking the vows of marriage, but also allows couples to avoid the potentially higher costs of divorce. Thus, divorce and cohabitation seem to be intrinsically linked. Here we theorize ho…
Ethnic Differences in Returning Home: Explanations From a Life Course Perspective
Ethnic differences in leaving and returning home may reflect varying cultural norms regarding intergenerational coresidence, but also differences in transitions in linked domains, for example, employment and partnership transitions. This study uses Dutch population register data to compare returning home among second-generation Turks, Moroccans, Surinamese, and Antilleans with native Dutch who had left the parental home between age 16 and 28 in t…
Gender, Turning Points, and Boomerangs: Returning Home in Young Adulthood in Great Britain
The idea of a generation of young adults “boomeranging” back to the parental home has gained widespread currency in the British popular press. However, there is little empirical research identifying either increasing rates of returning home or the factors associated with this trend. This article addresses this gap in the literature using data from a long-running household panel survey to examine the occurrence and determinants of returning to the…
Towards a new understanding of cohabitation: Insights from focus group research across Europe and Australia
Across the industrialized world, more couples are living together without marrying. Although researchers have compared cohabitation cross-nationally using quantitative data, few have compared union formation using qualitative data
Marital dissolution among the 1958 British birth cohort: The role of cohabitation
This paper investigates the effect of previous cohabitation on marital stability among the 1958 British birth cohort. Prospective data from the National Child Development Study are used to investigate the way in which family background factors and early lifecourse experiences, including cohabitation, affect the risk of first marriage dissolution by age 33. Discrete time logistic regression hazards models are used to analyse the risk of separation…
The changing determinants of UK young adults' living arrangements
The postponement of partnership formation and parenthood in the context of an early average age at leaving home has resulted in increased heterogeneity in the living arrangements of young adults in the UK. More young adults now remain in the parental h
Marriage and family formation among the white and ethnic minority populations in Britain
Recent UK Labour Force Survey data are used to investigate marriage and family formation among the white and ethnic minority populations in Britain. The different age-sex structures of the white and ethnic minority groups are analysed and the increasing number of UK-born or 'second-generation' persons identified. Large differentials are seen between ethnic minority groups in the propensity to cohabit, marry and experience marital disruption. Aver…
The Rise in Divorce and Cohabitation: Is There a Link
Over the past decades, divorce and cohabitation have increased dramatically throughout Europe. Divorce has fundamentally altered the institution of marriage from a life-long union to one that may dissolve. Cohabitation allows couples to live together without undertaking the vows of marriage, but also allows couples to avoid the potentially higher costs of divorce. Thus, divorce and cohabitation seem to be intrinsically linked. Here we theorize ho…
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
Expectations for family transitions in young adulthood among the UK second generation
This paper explores whether family transitions among descendants of post second-world-war immigrants are converging towards those of white British young adults by examining family formation expectations among 16-21 year-olds collected within the 2009-2015 waves of Understanding Society. We ask: Do current adolescents’ cohabitation, marriage and parenthood expectations differ by ethnic group? Are differences similar for men and women? Are ethnic d…
Entry Into Parenthood and the Outcome of Cohabiting Partnerships in Britain
Data from a national cohort study of men and women born in Britain in 1958 are used to examine factors influencing the outcome of cohabiting first partnerships. Conception is found to be a key factor promoting marriage for both men and women. Observed gender differences in the estimated impact of children on partnership stability are likely due to the incomplete reporting of past fertility among men. Social class and educational differentials in …
The fertility of recent migrants to England and Wales
Estimates of fertility for the overseas-born based on the period Total Fertility Rate (TFR) suggest that levels of childbearing are significantly higher among foreign-born women than women born in the UK. However, migration and timing of subsequent family
Scenario‐based fertility projections incorporating impacts of Covid‐19
This paper examines the recent declines in period fertility in the constituent countries of the UK during the past decade and speculates mechanisms through which the COVID‐19 pandemic could influence childbearing in the UK. The effects are likely to differ by age and presence of children. Considering potential forces acting on individuals at different ages and family sizes, we expect that the COVID‐19 pandemic will depress fertility, particularly…
Educational aspirations among UK Young Teenagers: Exploring the role of gender, class and ethnicity
Large socio‐economic differences in educational attainment and participation in Higher Education (HE) are seen in the United Kingdom (UK). Furthermore, improvements in attainment and in rates of progression to university have been much faster for most ethnic minority groups than for White children. Political rhetoric explains these differences in terms of a lack of aspiration, particularly among White, working‐class boys. This paper extends recen…
Commitment and the changing sequence of cohabitation, childbearing, and marriage: Insights from qualitative research in the UK
In the United Kingdom, standard, traditional sequences of family events have been replaced by a de-standardized life course; marriage is postponed and no longer necessary for childbearing; unmarried cohabitation has increased. New sequencing raises questio
Childbearing Following Marital Dissolution in Britain
The Changing Association Between Homeownership and the Transition to Parenthood
The literature suggests a positive link between homeownership and the transition to parenthood. However, in recent decades, couples' preference for becoming homeowners before having their first child has been undermined by rising housing unaffordability and housing uncertainty. An archetypal example is Britain, where homeownership rates among young adults have fallen substantially as a result of low wages, unemployment, reductions in the availabi…
Longitudinal life course perspectives on housing inequality in young adulthood
In many countries, there is growing public concern about the increasing difficulties that young people face in obtaining secure, affordable, high-quality, and well-located housing. Much of the analysis and discussion focuses on the ways in which intergenerational housing inequalities have deepened over time as young adults' fortunes have deteriorated, most obviously through declining access to homeownership. In this review, we showcase how resear…
Changes in the Living Arrangements of Young Adults in Britain During the 1980s
Factors affecting the living arrangements of young adults are reviewed. Changes in the proportions of young adults living outside the parental home during the 1980s in Britain are analysed using data from the Labour Force Survey (16–29-year-olds: 1981, N = 45,253; 1989, N = 31,322). Teenagers have shown an increased tendency to live away from their parents, whereas the position was reversed for those in their mid- to late 20s. Whilst socio-econom…
The role of education in the intersection of partnership transitions and motherhood in Europe and the United States
Previous research has shown that partnership status at first birth is associated with education across Europe and the United States. Most research has indicated that first births within cohabitation have a negative educational gradient. However, the pathwa
Cross-national differences in women's repartnering behaviour in Europe: The role of individual demographic characteristics
With rising union instability across Europe, more individuals now re-enter the partner market and eventually repartner. The increase in cohabitation may also be influencing repartnering behaviour. While several studies examine individual-level characterist
New insights into the fertility patterns of recent Polish migrants in the United Kingdom
Uncertain steps into adulthood: Does economic precariousness hinder entry into the first co-residential partnership in the UK
This study uses prospective data spanning 27 years (1991-2018) to explore the relationship between economic precariousness and transitions to first co-residential partnership among Britons aged 18-34 across three dimensions: age, historical time, and sex. Economic precariousness is measured using eight objective and subjective indicators, including income, employment, housing, and financial perceptions. Our results show that economic precariousne…
Understanding the decline in under-18 conception rates throughout England's local authorities between 1998 and 2017
We consider England's two-decade teenage conception decline in the context of societal changes: rising educational aspirations; growing second- and third-generation teenage ethnic minority populations; increased deprivation associated with economic recession and post-2008 Government austerity; and changing housing availability. Using England's Local Authority Districts (LAD) 1998-2017, we explore the role of area characteristics in explaining spa…
Ethnic Differences in Returning Home: Explanations From a Life Course Perspective
Ethnic differences in leaving and returning home may reflect varying cultural norms regarding intergenerational coresidence, but also differences in transitions in linked domains, for example, employment and partnership transitions. This study uses Dutch population register data to compare returning home among second-generation Turks, Moroccans, Surinamese, and Antilleans with native Dutch who had left the parental home between age 16 and 28 in t…
Living alone and psychological well-being in mid-life: Does partnership history matter
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have found that the duration since a union dissolution and the number of union dissolutions are associated with psychological well-being. However, these two aspects of partnership history have rarely been considered jointly in models of mental health. This study aims to investigate how the time since the most recent union dissolution and the number of union dissolutions are related to two indicators of psychological w…
Living in precarious partnerships: Understanding how young men's and women's economic precariousness contribute to outcomes of first cohabitation
In the UK, cohabitation has become the normative type of first co-residential partnership. While some couples go on to marry, others increasingly continue to cohabit or break up. One possible explanation is the rise in young people's economic precariousness. However, few studies have analysed this hypothesis empirically for the UK. By analysing data on cohabiting couple dyads from 1991 to 2019, we explore how economic precariousness (measured by …
Changes in the Living Arrangements of Young Adults in Britain During the 1980s
Factors affecting the living arrangements of young adults are reviewed. Changes in the proportions of young adults living outside the parental home during the 1980s in Britain are analysed using data from the Labour Force Survey (16–29-year-olds: 1981, N = 45,253; 1989, N = 31,322). Teenagers have shown an increased tendency to live away from their parents, whereas the position was reversed for those in their mid- to late 20s. Whilst socio-econom…
Marriage and family formation among the white and ethnic minority populations in Britain
Recent UK Labour Force Survey data are used to investigate marriage and family formation among the white and ethnic minority populations in Britain. The different age-sex structures of the white and ethnic minority groups are analysed and the increasing number of UK-born or 'second-generation' persons identified. Large differentials are seen between ethnic minority groups in the propensity to cohabit, marry and experience marital disruption. Aver…
Marital dissolution among the 1958 British birth cohort: The role of cohabitation
This paper investigates the effect of previous cohabitation on marital stability among the 1958 British birth cohort. Prospective data from the National Child Development Study are used to investigate the way in which family background factors and early lifecourse experiences, including cohabitation, affect the risk of first marriage dissolution by age 33. Discrete time logistic regression hazards models are used to analyse the risk of separation…
Childbearing Following Marital Dissolution in Britain
Entry Into Parenthood and the Outcome of Cohabiting Partnerships in Britain
Data from a national cohort study of men and women born in Britain in 1958 are used to examine factors influencing the outcome of cohabiting first partnerships. Conception is found to be a key factor promoting marriage for both men and women. Observed gender differences in the estimated impact of children on partnership stability are likely due to the incomplete reporting of past fertility among men. Social class and educational differentials in …
The changing determinants of UK young adults' living arrangements
The postponement of partnership formation and parenthood in the context of an early average age at leaving home has resulted in increased heterogeneity in the living arrangements of young adults in the UK. More young adults now remain in the parental h
Educational differences in fertility desires, intentions and behaviour: A life course perspective
Despite a long tradition of studying the relationship between education and fertility outcomes less is known about how educational differences in fertility intentions are formed and translated into achieved births over the life course. This paper provides new insights using data from a large cohort study and Miller's Traits-Desires-Intentions-Behaviour framework for understanding childbearing. We examine how parental aspirations for education, ed…
New insights into the fertility patterns of recent Polish migrants in the United Kingdom
Living alone and psychological well-being in mid-life: Does partnership history matter
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have found that the duration since a union dissolution and the number of union dissolutions are associated with psychological well-being. However, these two aspects of partnership history have rarely been considered jointly in models of mental health. This study aims to investigate how the time since the most recent union dissolution and the number of union dissolutions are related to two indicators of psychological w…
Gender, Turning Points, and Boomerangs: Returning Home in Young Adulthood in Great Britain
The idea of a generation of young adults “boomeranging” back to the parental home has gained widespread currency in the British popular press. However, there is little empirical research identifying either increasing rates of returning home or the factors associated with this trend. This article addresses this gap in the literature using data from a long-running household panel survey to examine the occurrence and determinants of returning to the…
Towards a new understanding of cohabitation: Insights from focus group research across Europe and Australia
Across the industrialized world, more couples are living together without marrying. Although researchers have compared cohabitation cross-nationally using quantitative data, few have compared union formation using qualitative data
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
Commitment and the changing sequence of cohabitation, childbearing, and marriage: Insights from qualitative research in the UK
In the United Kingdom, standard, traditional sequences of family events have been replaced by a de-standardized life course; marriage is postponed and no longer necessary for childbearing; unmarried cohabitation has increased. New sequencing raises questio
Educational aspirations among UK Young Teenagers: Exploring the role of gender, class and ethnicity
Large socio‐economic differences in educational attainment and participation in Higher Education (HE) are seen in the United Kingdom (UK). Furthermore, improvements in attainment and in rates of progression to university have been much faster for most ethnic minority groups than for White children. Political rhetoric explains these differences in terms of a lack of aspiration, particularly among White, working‐class boys. This paper extends recen…
The fertility of recent migrants to England and Wales
Estimates of fertility for the overseas-born based on the period Total Fertility Rate (TFR) suggest that levels of childbearing are significantly higher among foreign-born women than women born in the UK. However, migration and timing of subsequent family
Cross-national differences in women's repartnering behaviour in Europe: The role of individual demographic characteristics
With rising union instability across Europe, more individuals now re-enter the partner market and eventually repartner. The increase in cohabitation may also be influencing repartnering behaviour. While several studies examine individual-level characterist
The Rise in Divorce and Cohabitation: Is There a Link
Over the past decades, divorce and cohabitation have increased dramatically throughout Europe. Divorce has fundamentally altered the institution of marriage from a life-long union to one that may dissolve. Cohabitation allows couples to live together without undertaking the vows of marriage, but also allows couples to avoid the potentially higher costs of divorce. Thus, divorce and cohabitation seem to be intrinsically linked. Here we theorize ho…
Ethnic Differences in Returning Home: Explanations From a Life Course Perspective
Ethnic differences in leaving and returning home may reflect varying cultural norms regarding intergenerational coresidence, but also differences in transitions in linked domains, for example, employment and partnership transitions. This study uses Dutch population register data to compare returning home among second-generation Turks, Moroccans, Surinamese, and Antilleans with native Dutch who had left the parental home between age 16 and 28 in t…
The role of education in the intersection of partnership transitions and motherhood in Europe and the United States
Previous research has shown that partnership status at first birth is associated with education across Europe and the United States. Most research has indicated that first births within cohabitation have a negative educational gradient. However, the pathwa
Understanding the decline in under-18 conception rates throughout England's local authorities between 1998 and 2017
We consider England's two-decade teenage conception decline in the context of societal changes: rising educational aspirations; growing second- and third-generation teenage ethnic minority populations; increased deprivation associated with economic recession and post-2008 Government austerity; and changing housing availability. Using England's Local Authority Districts (LAD) 1998-2017, we explore the role of area characteristics in explaining spa…
Longitudinal life course perspectives on housing inequality in young adulthood
In many countries, there is growing public concern about the increasing difficulties that young people face in obtaining secure, affordable, high-quality, and well-located housing. Much of the analysis and discussion focuses on the ways in which intergenerational housing inequalities have deepened over time as young adults' fortunes have deteriorated, most obviously through declining access to homeownership. In this review, we showcase how resear…
Expectations for family transitions in young adulthood among the UK second generation
This paper explores whether family transitions among descendants of post second-world-war immigrants are converging towards those of white British young adults by examining family formation expectations among 16-21 year-olds collected within the 2009-2015 waves of Understanding Society. We ask: Do current adolescents’ cohabitation, marriage and parenthood expectations differ by ethnic group? Are differences similar for men and women? Are ethnic d…
Scenario‐based fertility projections incorporating impacts of Covid‐19
This paper examines the recent declines in period fertility in the constituent countries of the UK during the past decade and speculates mechanisms through which the COVID‐19 pandemic could influence childbearing in the UK. The effects are likely to differ by age and presence of children. Considering potential forces acting on individuals at different ages and family sizes, we expect that the COVID‐19 pandemic will depress fertility, particularly…
The Changing Association Between Homeownership and the Transition to Parenthood
The literature suggests a positive link between homeownership and the transition to parenthood. However, in recent decades, couples' preference for becoming homeowners before having their first child has been undermined by rising housing unaffordability and housing uncertainty. An archetypal example is Britain, where homeownership rates among young adults have fallen substantially as a result of low wages, unemployment, reductions in the availabi…
Investigating the application of generalized additive models to discrete-time event history analysis for birth events
Discrete-time event history analysis (EHA) is the standard approach taken when modelling fertility histories collected in surveys, where the date of birth is often recorded imprecisely. This method is commonly used to investigate the factors associated wit
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