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Fertility and Well-Being

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Project

Family Formation in Comparative Perspective

Andres Castro, Mathias Lerch; in Collaboration with Trude Lappegård (University of Oslo / Statistics Norway, Oslo, Norway), Sebastian Klüsener (Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany), Daniele Vignoli (University of Florence, Italy), Mikołaj Szołtysek (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany), Siegfried Gruber (University of Graz, Austria), Radoslaw Poniat (University of Bialystok, Poland), Hans-Peter Kohler, Frank F. Furstenberg (both: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)

Family formation processes have undergone some drastic changes over time, currently showing variations across countries and regions. These variations reflect in part long-standing differences. This project explores the determinants and the potential consequences of continuity and change in family formation patterns.  Detailed Description

Publications

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)