Laboratory

Fertility and Well-Being

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Family Formation in Comparative Perspective

Ewa Batyra, Andres Castro, Mikko Myrskylä, Julia Hellstrand, Jessica Nisén; in Collaboration with Hans-Peter Kohler (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)

Detailed Description

Family formation processes and structures are important features of human societies, and they are highly relevant for understanding fertility trends. These processes are influenced by processes of human development – socioeconomic, technological, and cultural – and at the same time affect the prospects for societal progress.

This project seeks to strengthen a global perspective on the determinants and potential consequences of continuity and change in family formation patterns through comparison of countries. Project research so far has contributed to both theoretical and empirical understandings by conducting comparative analyses of data, creating indicators, and developing methodologies to study family changes.

Publications

Batyra, E.; Leone, T.; Myrskylä, M.:

Forecasting of cohort fertility by educational level in countries with limited data availability: the case of Brazil

Population Studies 77:2, 179–195. (2023)    

Batyra, E.; Pesando, L. M.; Castro Torres, A. F.; Furstenberg, F. F.; Kohler, H.-P.:

Union formation, within-couple dynamics, and child well-being: a global macro-level perspective

Population, Space and Place, 1–15. (2023)    

Batyra, E.; Kohler, H.-P.:

Unequal transitions to adulthood: widening disparities in age at first union, sex, and birth in many low- and middle-income countries

Studies in Family Planning 53:3, 389–565. (2022)    

Castro Torres, A. F.; Pesando, L. M.; Kohler, H.-P.; Furstenberg, F. F.:

Family change and variation through the lens of family configurations in low- and middle-income countries

Population, Space and Place 28:4, e2531–e2531. (2022)    

Fallesen, P.; Dommermuth, L.; Hellstrand, J.; Simonsen, E.; Loft, L. T. G.; Mortensen, L. H.:

Research note: comparing ideal family size with observed and forecasted completed cohort fertility in Denmark and Norway

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-031. (2022)    

Väisänen, H.; Batyra, E.:

The effect of birth intention status on infant mortality: a fixed effects analysis of 60 countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-032. (2022)    

Batyra, E.; Leone, T.; Myrskylä, M.:

Forecasting of cohort fertility by educational level in countries with limited data availability: the case of Brazil

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-011. (2021)    

Batyra, E.; Pesando, L. M.:

Trends in child marriage and new evidence on the selective impact of changes in age-at-marriage laws on early marriage

SSM-Population Health 14:100811, 1–12. (2021)    

Castro Torres, A. F.:

Analysis of Latin American fertility in terms of probable social classes

European Journal of Population 37:2, 297–339. (2021)    

Hellstrand, J.; Nisén, J.; Miranda, V.; Fallesen, P.; Dommermuth, L.; Myrskylä, M.:

Not just later, but fewer: novel trends in cohort fertility in the Nordic countries

Demography 58:4, 1373–1399. (2021)    

Lappegård, T.; Klüsener, S.; Vignoli, D.:

Why are marriage and family formation increasingly disconnected across Europe? A multi-level perspective on existing theories

Population, Space and Place 24:2, e2088–e2088. (2018)    

Szołtysek, M.; Klüsener, S.; Poniat, R.; Gruber, S.:

The Patriarchy Index: a new measure of gender and generational inequalities in the past

Cross-Cultural Research 51:3, 228–262. (2017)    

Szołtysek, M.; Poniat, R.; Klüsener, S.; Gruber, S.:

Family organisation and human capital inequalities in historic Europe: testing the association anew

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-012. (2017)