TY - JOUR A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Geisler, Esther A1 - Castro Martín, Teresa A1 - Hannemann, Tina A1 - Heintz-Martin, Valerie A1 - Jalovaara, Marika A1 - Kulu, Hill A1 - Meggiolaro, Silvia A1 - Mortelmans, Dimitri A1 - Pasteels, Inge A1 - Seiz, Marta A1 - Solaz, Anne T1 - Social policies, separation, and second birth spacing in Western Europe JF - Demographic Research N2 - 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. Y1 - 2017 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-24944 UR - https://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol37/37/ VL - 37 SP - 1245 EP - 1274 ER -