@article{KreyenfeldGeislerCastroMartinetal., author = {Kreyenfeld, Michaela and Geisler, Esther and Castro Mart{\´i}n, Teresa and Hannemann, Tina and Heintz-Martin, Valerie and Jalovaara, Marika and Kulu, Hill and Meggiolaro, Silvia and Mortelmans, Dimitri and Pasteels, Inge and Seiz, Marta and Solaz, Anne}, title = {Social policies, separation, and second birth spacing in Western Europe}, series = {Demographic Research}, volume = {37}, journal = {Demographic Research}, doi = {10.4054/DemRes.2017.37.37}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-24944}, pages = {1245 -- 1274}, abstract = {OBJECTIVE This paper studies postseparation fertility behavior. The aim is to investigate whether,and if so how, separation affects second birth spacing in Western European countries. METHODS This analysis makes use of rich survey data from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy,Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as from Finnish register data. We thus cover the behavior of a large proportion of the population of Western Europe. We also use descriptive measures, such as Kaplan‒Meier survival functions and cumulative incidence curves. In the multivariate analysis, we employ event history modeling to show how education relates to postseparation fertility behavior.}, language = {en} }