Wendy Sigle
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 275774 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Wendy Sigle |
| PRENOMES | Wendy |
| SOBRENOME | Sigle |
| ASSINATURA | SIGLE W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8450-960X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 624 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Forum on Depletion
I am delighted to have the opportunity to contribute to this Book Forum and to share my thoughts on Shirin Rai’s recent book Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring. The book consolidates and continue
Global Reproductive Justice
This special issue focuses on reproductive justice (RJ) as a framework for feminist research and activism. The introduction provides an overview of when and why the RJ framework was developed, outlines the ways it challenged and extended the way reproductive rights were understood and approached by feminist scholars and activists, and articulaties its productive potential. RJ’s relevance for identifying and responding to the breadth of rights vio…
What Reproductive Justice Brings to and Requires of The Feminist Economics Project
Despite evidence of a growing interest in reproductive justice (RJ) among feminist economists, this interest is nascent. To avoid RJ becoming a buzzword and losing its political and critical edge, it is important to fully grasp what the RJ framework means and brings to research. This Dialogue aims to create a space where the possibility of an interdisciplinary, transnational exchange of knowledge and ideas could be explored and encouraged. It pre…
With Age Comes …? An Examination of Gendered Differences in the Resource Advantages Associated with Parental Age in Norway
Using high-quality register data, this paper constructs an empirical portrait of older parenthood in contemporary Norway and explores gender differences in the extent to which older parents are better-resourced parents. Like most family issues, academic and policy discussions of older parenthood have tended to focus on the experiences of women. Although motherhood at older ages was not uncommon in previous generations, rapid social and family cha…
Years of Population Studies
A diamond anniversary special issueThe celebration of anniversaries is a long-standing, widespread, and popular custom, connecting us to the cycle of life and prompting reflections on who we have become.Celebrations are often linked to demographic events or transitions, such as births and weddings or, in the case of royalty, events such as transition to the throne.As 2021 draws to a close, Population Studies: A Journal of Demography completes its…
Demography's theory and approach
Around the time that Population Studies celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1996, Susan Greenhalgh published ‘An intellectual, institutional, and political history of twentieth-century demography’. Her contribution described a discipline that, when viewed from its margins, prompted scholars in other disciplines to ask the following questions: ‘Why is the field still wedded to many of the assumptions of mid-century modernization theory and why are …
Mind the gap
Using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), we examine whether and how the health benefits of having two biological parents in a continuous marital relationship vary by maternal nativity and ethnicity, comparing UK-born White mothers with: (1) White mothers born in wealthy countries; (2) ethnic minority mothers from South Asia; and (3) ethnic minority mothers born in Africa. Making novel use of classification and regression tree (CART) …
When richer doesn't mean thinner
BACKGROUND: A range of studies report a robust association between family socioeconomic position and the prevalence of child overweight/obesity. On average, children from poorer backgrounds are more likely to be overweight/obese than children from more advantaged families. However, a small number of US studies have shown that, for ethnic minority children, the association is either nonexistent or reversed. OBJECTIVE: We test if the link between s…
Gender and the Politics of Death
There is considerable speculation that female political empowerment could improve population health. Yet, evidence to date is limited, and explanations for why political empowerment would matter and the conditions under which this might be enhanced or muted are not well understood. In this article, we draw on theoretical work on the politics of representation to frame an investigation of whether increases in the percentage of females in a country…
When the grass is greener
In research and policy discourse, conceptualizations of fertility decision-making often assume that people only consider circumstances within national borders. In an integrated Europe, citizens may know about and compare conditions across countries. Such comparisons may influence the way people think about and respond to childrearing costs. To explore this possibility and its implications, we present evidence from 44 in-depth interviews with Poli…
Fertility and Population Change in the United Kingdom
Childbearing Postponement and Child Well-being
Over the past several decades, U.S. fertility has followed a trend toward the postponement of motherhood. The socioeconomic causes and consequences of this trend have been the focus of attention in the demographic literature. Given the socioeconomic advantages of those who postpone having children, some authors have argued that the disadvantage experienced by certain groups would be reduced if they postponed their births. The weathering hypothesi…
Proceed With Caution? Parents' Union Dissolution and Children's Educational Achievement
Using high-quality Norwegian register data on 49,879 children from 23,655 families, the authors estimated sibling fixed-effects models to explore whether children who are younger at the time of a parental union dissolution perform less well academically, as measured by their grades at age 16, than their older siblings who have spent more time living with both biological parents. Results from a baseline model suggest a positive age gradient that i…
Effects of the Number and Age of Siblings on Educational Transitions in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Studies examining the link between number of siblings and level of education attained by children in Africa have produced mixed results. This study draws on Demographic and Health Survey data from 26 sub‐Saharan African countries and employs a multilevel multiprocess model that controls for time‐invariant unobserved mother‐level characteristics. We find indications that having younger siblings increases the likelihood of entering primary school; …
Changes in union status during the transition to parenthood in eleven European countries, 1970s to early 2000s
Couples who have children are increasingly likely to have lived together without being married at some point in their relationship. Some couples begin their unions with cohabitation and marry before first conception, some marry during pregnancy or directly after the first birth, while others remain unmarried 3 years after the first birth. Using union and fertility histories since the 1970s for eleven countries, we examine whether women who have c…
Fertility Patterns of Child Migrants
This article examines the fertility of women who migrated as children to one of three OECD countries-Canada, the United Kingdom, and France-and how it differs from that of native-born women, by age at migration. By looking at child migrants whose fertility behavior is neither interrupted by the migration event nor confounded by selection, the authors obtain a unique perspective on the adaptation process as a mechanism that explains variation in o…
Continuity and change in Swedish family policy reforms
This paper examines whether and to what extent three recently implemented family policies in Sweden change incentives regarding employment and choice of childcare for parents of young children, and whether these incentives differ by income level. These policy innovations warrant close examination because they represent a decisive ideological shift from what was a coherent set of policies that created incentives for high levels of female employmen…
Men's Unpaid Work and Divorce
Economists have spent a good deal of time examining and trying to explain the positive association between female employment and divorce. However, in doing so, they have paid very little attention to the behavior of men. This paper addresses that oversight. Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study – a study conducted at a time when gendered specialization was the normative household arrangement for families with small children and when econo…
The Educational Gradient of Childbearing within Cohabitation in Europe
Nearly every European Country has experienced some increase in nonmarital childbearing, largely due to increasing births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using retrospective union and fertility histories, we employ competing risk hazard models to examine the educational gradient of childbearing in cohabitation in ei…
Consequences of family disruption on children’s educational outcomes in Norway
Using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers, we examine the relationship between family disruption and children’s educational outcomes. We distinguish between disruptions caused by parental divorce and paternal death and, using a simultaneous equation model, pay particular attention to selection bias in the effect of divorce. We also allow for the possibility that disruption may have different effects at different stages of a chil…
Identifying Patterns of Resilience Using Classification Trees
This paper introduces and illustrates the value of a classification trees approach in the study of resilience. The inherently interactive nature of the resilience construct makes this approach useful. Classification trees are a person-centred approach to data analysis, which successively split the sample into pairs of increasingly homogeneous groups of individuals. We outline the approach and then illustrate using adult educational outcomes for c…
England and Wales
For nearly three decades, the total fertility rate in England and Wales has remained high relative to other European countries, and stable at about 1.7 births per woman. In this chapter, we examine trends in both period and cohort fertility throughout
Motherhood and women's earnings in Anglo-American, Continental European, and Nordic Countries
The earnings of mothers make up an important, but difficult to quantify, component of parental expenditures on children. This paper compares the long-term earnings of women with children, women without children, and men. The study conducts separate analyses for less educated, moderately educated, and highly educated people in eight Anglo-American, Continental European, and Nordic countries. The study finds that, for the most part, these countries…
The incomes of families with children
Using data on seven countries, we estimate trajectories in family incomes for families with and without children following several stylized life-courses. Focusing mainly on women with a medium level of education, we find, in general, that gaps in family income are smallest in the Nordic countries, intermediate in the Anglo-American countries, and largest in the continental European countries. Our findings are similar to patterns observed in the l…
Partner Supply in Britain and the US
Nous présentons des estimations de l’offre de conjoints potentiels par sexe et par âge, pour les États-Unis et pour l’Angleterre-pays de Galles en 1990-1991, en utilisant des données explicites sur les préférences d’âge. L’offre varie considérablement en fonction de l’âge et du sexe : pour les femmes, elle décline avec l’âge, tandis que c’est l’inverse pour les hommes. La décomposition des données montre que les femmes jeunes sont largement avant…
The Educational Gradient of Childbearing within Cohabitation in Europe
Nearly every European Country has experienced some increase in nonmarital childbearing, largely due to increasing births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using retrospective union and fertility histories, we employ competing risk hazard models to examine the educational gradient of childbearing in cohabitation in ei…
Changes in union status during the transition to parenthood in eleven European countries, 1970s to early 2000s
Couples who have children are increasingly likely to have lived together without being married at some point in their relationship. Some couples begin their unions with cohabitation and marry before first conception, some marry during pregnancy or directly after the first birth, while others remain unmarried 3 years after the first birth. Using union and fertility histories since the 1970s for eleven countries, we examine whether women who have c…
Motherhood and women's earnings in Anglo-American, Continental European, and Nordic Countries
The earnings of mothers make up an important, but difficult to quantify, component of parental expenditures on children. This paper compares the long-term earnings of women with children, women without children, and men. The study conducts separate analyses for less educated, moderately educated, and highly educated people in eight Anglo-American, Continental European, and Nordic countries. The study finds that, for the most part, these countries…
The living arrangements of new unmarried mothers
We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to describe the living arrangements of new, unwed mothers and to examine the selection process that underlies choices of living arrangements. Our analysis goes beyond previous studies by examining a wide diversity of living arrangements for a homogenous sample of recent unwed mothers and by using information on both parents’ demographic and human capital characteristics and the quali…
Consequences of family disruption on children’s educational outcomes in Norway
Using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers, we examine the relationship between family disruption and children’s educational outcomes. We distinguish between disruptions caused by parental divorce and paternal death and, using a simultaneous equation model, pay particular attention to selection bias in the effect of divorce. We also allow for the possibility that disruption may have different effects at different stages of a chil…
Parental divorce and subsequent disadvantage
Although many studies have examined the link between parental divorce and subsequent wellbeing, some theories of the effects of divorce suggest that the negative associations should have declined over time. However, few studies have examined the extent to which the associations have remained stable over time. Using data from two British cohorts, we analyzed both shorter- and longer-term outcomes of children who experienced parental divorce and th…
Proceed With Caution? Parents' Union Dissolution and Children's Educational Achievement
Using high-quality Norwegian register data on 49,879 children from 23,655 families, the authors estimated sibling fixed-effects models to explore whether children who are younger at the time of a parental union dissolution perform less well academically, as measured by their grades at age 16, than their older siblings who have spent more time living with both biological parents. Results from a baseline model suggest a positive age gradient that i…
Men's Unpaid Work and Divorce
Economists have spent a good deal of time examining and trying to explain the positive association between female employment and divorce. However, in doing so, they have paid very little attention to the behavior of men. This paper addresses that oversight. Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study – a study conducted at a time when gendered specialization was the normative household arrangement for families with small children and when econo…
England and Wales
For nearly three decades, the total fertility rate in England and Wales has remained high relative to other European countries, and stable at about 1.7 births per woman. In this chapter, we examine trends in both period and cohort fertility throughout
Fertility Patterns of Child Migrants
This article examines the fertility of women who migrated as children to one of three OECD countries-Canada, the United Kingdom, and France-and how it differs from that of native-born women, by age at migration. By looking at child migrants whose fertility behavior is neither interrupted by the migration event nor confounded by selection, the authors obtain a unique perspective on the adaptation process as a mechanism that explains variation in o…
The incomes of families with children
Using data on seven countries, we estimate trajectories in family incomes for families with and without children following several stylized life-courses. Focusing mainly on women with a medium level of education, we find, in general, that gaps in family income are smallest in the Nordic countries, intermediate in the Anglo-American countries, and largest in the continental European countries. Our findings are similar to patterns observed in the l…
Young Fatherhood and Subsequent Disadvantage in the United Kingdom
Although there has been increasing attention to the importance of fathers and their relationships with their children, few studies have examined young parenthood and its consequences for fathers' life chances. In recent years, this has begun to change, and research is examining, to a far greater extent, the experiences of young fathers. Using data from a cohort of British men born in 1970, this paper uses a propensity score-matching technique to …
For Richer or Poorer? Marriage as an Anti-Poverty Strategy in the United States
Many conservative politicians in the United States are suggesting that although, as a result of sweeping reforms, states have been successful at moving welfare mothers into paid employment, they have paid too little attention to an integral anti-poverty strategy—encouraging the formation of two-parent families. Comparing the incomes of single mother families to two-parent families, they argue that marriage would reduce poverty. Using data from th…
Childbearing Postponement and Child Well-being
Over the past several decades, U.S. fertility has followed a trend toward the postponement of motherhood. The socioeconomic causes and consequences of this trend have been the focus of attention in the demographic literature. Given the socioeconomic advantages of those who postpone having children, some authors have argued that the disadvantage experienced by certain groups would be reduced if they postponed their births. The weathering hypothesi…
Effects of the Number and Age of Siblings on Educational Transitions in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Studies examining the link between number of siblings and level of education attained by children in Africa have produced mixed results. This study draws on Demographic and Health Survey data from 26 sub‐Saharan African countries and employs a multilevel multiprocess model that controls for time‐invariant unobserved mother‐level characteristics. We find indications that having younger siblings increases the likelihood of entering primary school; …
Partner Supply in Britain and the US
Nous présentons des estimations de l’offre de conjoints potentiels par sexe et par âge, pour les États-Unis et pour l’Angleterre-pays de Galles en 1990-1991, en utilisant des données explicites sur les préférences d’âge. L’offre varie considérablement en fonction de l’âge et du sexe : pour les femmes, elle décline avec l’âge, tandis que c’est l’inverse pour les hommes. La décomposition des données montre que les femmes jeunes sont largement avant…
When the grass is greener
In research and policy discourse, conceptualizations of fertility decision-making often assume that people only consider circumstances within national borders. In an integrated Europe, citizens may know about and compare conditions across countries. Such comparisons may influence the way people think about and respond to childrearing costs. To explore this possibility and its implications, we present evidence from 44 in-depth interviews with Poli…
L'offre de conjoints potentiels en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis
Resume Nous presentons des estimations de l’offre de conjoints potentiels par sexe et par âge, pour les Etats-Unis et pour l’Angleterre-Pays de Galles en 1990-1991, en utilisant des donnees explicites sur les preferences d’âge. L’offre varie considerablement en fonction de l’âge et du sexe : pour les femmes, elle decline avec l’âge, tandis que c’est l’inverse pour les hommes. La decomposition des donnees montre que les femmes jeunes sont largemen…
Demography's theory and approach
Around the time that Population Studies celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1996, Susan Greenhalgh published ‘An intellectual, institutional, and political history of twentieth-century demography’. Her contribution described a discipline that, when viewed from its margins, prompted scholars in other disciplines to ask the following questions: ‘Why is the field still wedded to many of the assumptions of mid-century modernization theory and why are …
Gender and the Politics of Death
There is considerable speculation that female political empowerment could improve population health. Yet, evidence to date is limited, and explanations for why political empowerment would matter and the conditions under which this might be enhanced or muted are not well understood. In this article, we draw on theoretical work on the politics of representation to frame an investigation of whether increases in the percentage of females in a country…
Continuity and change in Swedish family policy reforms
This paper examines whether and to what extent three recently implemented family policies in Sweden change incentives regarding employment and choice of childcare for parents of young children, and whether these incentives differ by income level. These policy innovations warrant close examination because they represent a decisive ideological shift from what was a coherent set of policies that created incentives for high levels of female employmen…
Childhood mortality and quality of care among abandoned children in nineteenth-century Italy
A great deal of scholarly attention has been devoted in recent years to the large-scale abandonment of new born babies in the European past, with special emphasis given to the staggering rates of infant mortality among the foundlings. For the most part, scholars have agreed with the foundling home officials of the past in assigning much of the blame for this excess mortality to the women who took in the foundlings as wetnurses and subsequently as…
Mind the gap
Using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), we examine whether and how the health benefits of having two biological parents in a continuous marital relationship vary by maternal nativity and ethnicity, comparing UK-born White mothers with: (1) White mothers born in wealthy countries; (2) ethnic minority mothers from South Asia; and (3) ethnic minority mothers born in Africa. Making novel use of classification and regression tree (CART) …
Partner Supply in Britain and the US
Marriage market estimates by sex and age are made for the US and England and Wales in 1990-91, using explicit data on age preferences. Availability is strongly differentiated by age and sex; it decreases with age for women, while the opposite is true for men. Decomposition shows that young women are advantaged largely by age preferences while older men are advantaged by population age-sex and marital status structure. Most men marry at ages when …
The Living Arrangements of New Unmarried Mothers
We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to describe the living arrangements of new, unwed mothers and to examine the selection process that underlies choices of living arrangements. Our analysis goes beyond previous studies by examining a wide diversity of living arrangements for a homogenous sample of recent unwed mothers and by using information on both parents' demographic and human capital characteristics and the quali…
The marriage of female foundlings in nineteenth-century Italy
The large-scale abandonment of infants in the European past has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention in recent years. Its staggering dimensions in many countries of Europe, as recently as the nineteenth century, have prompted some uncomfortable rethinking about family life and parent–child (and especially mother–child) relations in the past. Studies of abandonment have contributed to our understanding not only of gender ideology and gend…
Childhood mortality and quality of care among abandoned children in nineteenth-century Italy
A great deal of scholarly attention has been devoted in recent years to the large-scale abandonment of new born babies in the European past, with special emphasis given to the staggering rates of infant mortality among the foundlings. For the most part, scholars have agreed with the foundling home officials of the past in assigning much of the blame for this excess mortality to the women who took in the foundlings as wetnurses and subsequently as…
Abandoned Children and Their Transitions to Adulthood in Nineteenth-Century Italy
Recent work on the large-scale abandonment of European infants has focused on abandonment itself, how the infants were treated, and how many survived infancy. Little is known about what happened to those who survived. The authors focus on what happened to the foundlings of Bologna, Italy, over the course of the nineteenth century, at the point in their lives when foster families were no longer paid to care for them. The evidence from Bologna does…
Monastic Poor Relief in Sixteenth-Century England
Journal of Interdisciplinary History - Volume 32, Number 2, Autumn 2001
For Richer or Poorer? Marriage as an Anti-Poverty Strategy in the United States
Many conservative politicians in the United States are suggesting that although, as a result of sweeping reforms, states have been successful at moving welfare mothers into paid employment, they have paid too little attention to an integral anti-poverty strategy—encouraging the formation of two-parent families. Comparing the incomes of single mother families to two-parent families, they argue that marriage would reduce poverty. Using data from th…
The Living Arrangements of New Unmarried Mothers
We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to describe the living arrangements of new, unwed mothers and to examine the selection process that underlies choices of living arrangements. Our analysis goes beyond previous studies by examining a wide diversity of living arrangements for a homogenous sample of recent unwed mothers and by using information on both parents' demographic and human capital characteristics and the quali…
The living arrangements of new unmarried mothers
We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to describe the living arrangements of new, unwed mothers and to examine the selection process that underlies choices of living arrangements. Our analysis goes beyond previous studies by examining a wide diversity of living arrangements for a homogenous sample of recent unwed mothers and by using information on both parents’ demographic and human capital characteristics and the quali…
Pour le meilleur ou pour le pire
Pour de nombreux responsables politiques conservateurs américains, bien que les États aient réussi, moyennant de profondes réformes, à ramener vers le travail salarié les mères de famille qui vivaient de l'aide sociale, ils ont négligé une stratégie anti-pauvreté radicale : encourager la formation de familles biparentales. En comparant les revenus des familles monoparentales à ceux des familles biparentales, ils soutiennent que le mariage réduit …
Pour le meilleur ou pour le pire? Le mariage comme moyen d'echapper a la pauvrete aux Etats-Unis
Sigle-Rushton W., McLanahan Sara. Pour le meilleur ou pour le pire? Le mariage comme moyen d'échapper à la pauvreté aux États-Unis. In: Population, 57e année, n°3, 2002. pp. 519-538
Partner Supply in Britain and the US
Nous présentons des estimations de l’offre de conjoints potentiels par sexe et par âge, pour les États-Unis et pour l’Angleterre-pays de Galles en 1990-1991, en utilisant des données explicites sur les préférences d’âge. L’offre varie considérablement en fonction de l’âge et du sexe : pour les femmes, elle décline avec l’âge, tandis que c’est l’inverse pour les hommes. La décomposition des données montre que les femmes jeunes sont largement avant…
Partner Supply in Britain and the US
Marriage market estimates by sex and age are made for the US and England and Wales in 1990-91, using explicit data on age preferences. Availability is strongly differentiated by age and sex; it decreases with age for women, while the opposite is true for men. Decomposition shows that young women are advantaged largely by age preferences while older men are advantaged by population age-sex and marital status structure. Most men marry at ages when …
Parental divorce and subsequent disadvantage
Although many studies have examined the link between parental divorce and subsequent wellbeing, some theories of the effects of divorce suggest that the negative associations should have declined over time. However, few studies have examined the extent to which the associations have remained stable over time. Using data from two British cohorts, we analyzed both shorter- and longer-term outcomes of children who experienced parental divorce and th…
L'offre de conjoints potentiels en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis
Resume Nous presentons des estimations de l’offre de conjoints potentiels par sexe et par âge, pour les Etats-Unis et pour l’Angleterre-Pays de Galles en 1990-1991, en utilisant des donnees explicites sur les preferences d’âge. L’offre varie considerablement en fonction de l’âge et du sexe : pour les femmes, elle decline avec l’âge, tandis que c’est l’inverse pour les hommes. La decomposition des donnees montre que les femmes jeunes sont largemen…
Young Fatherhood and Subsequent Disadvantage in the United Kingdom
Although there has been increasing attention to the importance of fathers and their relationships with their children, few studies have examined young parenthood and its consequences for fathers' life chances. In recent years, this has begun to change, and research is examining, to a far greater extent, the experiences of young fathers. Using data from a cohort of British men born in 1970, this paper uses a propensity score-matching technique to …
Motherhood and women's earnings in Anglo-American, Continental European, and Nordic Countries
The earnings of mothers make up an important, but difficult to quantify, component of parental expenditures on children. This paper compares the long-term earnings of women with children, women without children, and men. The study conducts separate analyses for less educated, moderately educated, and highly educated people in eight Anglo-American, Continental European, and Nordic countries. The study finds that, for the most part, these countries…
The incomes of families with children
Using data on seven countries, we estimate trajectories in family incomes for families with and without children following several stylized life-courses. Focusing mainly on women with a medium level of education, we find, in general, that gaps in family income are smallest in the Nordic countries, intermediate in the Anglo-American countries, and largest in the continental European countries. Our findings are similar to patterns observed in the l…
Identifying Patterns of Resilience Using Classification Trees
This paper introduces and illustrates the value of a classification trees approach in the study of resilience. The inherently interactive nature of the resilience construct makes this approach useful. Classification trees are a person-centred approach to data analysis, which successively split the sample into pairs of increasingly homogeneous groups of individuals. We outline the approach and then illustrate using adult educational outcomes for c…
England and Wales
For nearly three decades, the total fertility rate in England and Wales has remained high relative to other European countries, and stable at about 1.7 births per woman. In this chapter, we examine trends in both period and cohort fertility throughout
Consequences of family disruption on children’s educational outcomes in Norway
Using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers, we examine the relationship between family disruption and children’s educational outcomes. We distinguish between disruptions caused by parental divorce and paternal death and, using a simultaneous equation model, pay particular attention to selection bias in the effect of divorce. We also allow for the possibility that disruption may have different effects at different stages of a chil…
Men's Unpaid Work and Divorce
Economists have spent a good deal of time examining and trying to explain the positive association between female employment and divorce. However, in doing so, they have paid very little attention to the behavior of men. This paper addresses that oversight. Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study – a study conducted at a time when gendered specialization was the normative household arrangement for families with small children and when econo…
The Educational Gradient of Childbearing within Cohabitation in Europe
Nearly every European Country has experienced some increase in nonmarital childbearing, largely due to increasing births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using retrospective union and fertility histories, we employ competing risk hazard models to examine the educational gradient of childbearing in cohabitation in ei…
Continuity and change in Swedish family policy reforms
This paper examines whether and to what extent three recently implemented family policies in Sweden change incentives regarding employment and choice of childcare for parents of young children, and whether these incentives differ by income level. These policy innovations warrant close examination because they represent a decisive ideological shift from what was a coherent set of policies that created incentives for high levels of female employmen…
Changes in union status during the transition to parenthood in eleven European countries, 1970s to early 2000s
Couples who have children are increasingly likely to have lived together without being married at some point in their relationship. Some couples begin their unions with cohabitation and marry before first conception, some marry during pregnancy or directly after the first birth, while others remain unmarried 3 years after the first birth. Using union and fertility histories since the 1970s for eleven countries, we examine whether women who have c…
Fertility Patterns of Child Migrants
This article examines the fertility of women who migrated as children to one of three OECD countries-Canada, the United Kingdom, and France-and how it differs from that of native-born women, by age at migration. By looking at child migrants whose fertility behavior is neither interrupted by the migration event nor confounded by selection, the authors obtain a unique perspective on the adaptation process as a mechanism that explains variation in o…
Effects of the Number and Age of Siblings on Educational Transitions in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Studies examining the link between number of siblings and level of education attained by children in Africa have produced mixed results. This study draws on Demographic and Health Survey data from 26 sub‐Saharan African countries and employs a multilevel multiprocess model that controls for time‐invariant unobserved mother‐level characteristics. We find indications that having younger siblings increases the likelihood of entering primary school; …
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