TY - JOUR A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Perelli-Harris, Brienna A1 - Sigle-Rushton, Wendy A1 - Keizer, Renske A1 - Lappegard, Trude A1 - Jasilioniene, Aiva A1 - Berghammer, Caroline A1 - Di Giulio, Paola T1 - Changes in union status during the transition to parenthood in eleven European countries, 1970s to early 2000s JF - Population Studies: A Journal of Demography N2 - 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 children in unions marry, and if so, at what stage in family formation. We also examine whether women who conceive when cohabiting are more likely to marry or separate. We find that patterns of union formation and childbearing develop along different trajectories across countries. In all countries, however, less than 40 per cent of women remained in cohabitation up to 3 years after the first birth, suggesting that marriage remains the predominant institution for raising children. KW - Cohabitation KW - Marriage KW - Union dynamics KW - Childbearing KW - Europe KW - Life-course research Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2012.673004 SN - 1477-4747 VL - 66 IS - 2 SP - 167 EP - 182 PB - Routledge CY - London [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Perelli-Harris, Brienna A1 - Sigle-Rushton, Wendy A1 - Lappegard, Trude A1 - Berghammer, Caroline A1 - Keizer, Renske T1 - The educational gradient of nonmarital childbearing in Europe JF - Population and Development Review N2 - 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 eight countries across europe. In all countries studied, birth risks within cohabitation demonstrated a negative educational gradient. When directly comparing cohabiting fertility with marital fertility, the negative educational gradient persists in all countries except Italy, although differences were not significant in Austria, France, and West Germany. To explain these findings, we present an alternative explanation for the increase in childbearing within cohabitation that goes beyond the explanation of the Second Demographic Transition and provides a new interpretation of the underlying mechanisms that may influence childbearing within cohabitation. Y1 - 2010 UR - http://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2010-004.pdf SN - 0098-7921 N1 - Available as Working Paper from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research: http://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2010-004.pdf VL - 36 IS - 4 SP - 775 EP - 801 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken (NJ) [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nisén, Jessica A1 - Klüsener, Sebastian A1 - Dahlberg, Johan A1 - Dommermuth, Lars A1 - Jasilioniene, Aiva A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Lappegård, Trude A1 - Li, Peng A1 - Martikainen, Pekka A1 - Neels, Karel A1 - Riederer, Bernhard A1 - te Riele, Saskia A1 - Szabó, Laura A1 - Trimarchi, Alessandra A1 - Viciana, Francisco A1 - Wilson, Ben A1 - Myrskylä, Mikko T1 - Educational differences in cohort fertility across subnational regions in Europe JF - European Journal of Population N2 - Educational differences in female cohort fertility vary strongly across high-income countries and over time, but knowledge about how educational fertility differentials play out at the sub-national regional level is limited. Examining these sub-national regional patterns might improve our understanding of national patterns, as regionally varying contextual conditions may affect fertility. This study provides for the first time for a large number of European countries a comprehensive account of educational differences in the cohort fertility rate (CFR) at the sub-national regional level. We harmonise data from population registers, censuses, and large-sample surveys for 15 countries to measure women’s completed fertility by educational level and region of residence at the end of the reproductive lifespan. In order to explore associations between educational differences in CFRs and levels of economic development, we link our data to regional GDP per capita. Empirical Bayesian estimation is used to reduce uncertainty in the regional fertility estimates. We document an overall negative gradient between the CFR and level of education, and notable regional variation in the gradient. The steepness of the gradient is inversely related to the economic development level. It is steepest in the least developed regions and close to zero in the most developed regions. This tendency is observed within countries as well as across all regions of all countries. Our findings underline the variability of educational gradients in women’s fertility, suggest that higher levels of development may be associated with less negative gradients, and call for more in-depth sub-national-level fertility analyses by education. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-020-09562-0 ER -