Laboratory

Fertility and Well-Being

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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)

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

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)