MPIDR Working Paper

Becoming a parent in East Germany during the 1990s. The impact of personal considerations on the timing of entry to parenthood

von der Lippe, H., Andersson, G.
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2005-008, 38 pages.
Rostock, Max-Planck-Institut für demografische Forschung (März 2005)
Open Access

Abstract

This paper deals with psychological determinants of fertility differentials in East Germany in the 1990s. We test the explanatory and statistical power of psychological covariates in an event-history model of first-birth intensities together with other covariates. We show that different psychological covariates (wishes and fears, coping-styles, etc.) are important determinants of the transition to parenthood. A crucial finding is the existence of strong sex differentials in such impacts.
Schlagwörter: Deutschland, Neue Bundesländer, fertility determinants, sex differentials, social psychology
Das Max-Planck-Institut für demografische Forschung (MPIDR) in Rostock ist eines der international führenden Zentren für Bevölkerungswissenschaft. Es gehört zur Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, einer der weltweit renommiertesten Forschungsgemeinschaften.