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Non-cohabiting Partners' Economic Characteristics and the Transition to Living Together in Germany: A Couple-Level Perspective. 德国非同居伴侣的经济特征和向共同生活的转变：一个夫妻层面的视角。

IF 2.6 2区社会学

European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10680-025-09740-y

Valeria Ferraretto, Nicole Hiekel, Agnese Vitali

{"title":"Non-cohabiting Partners' Economic Characteristics and the Transition to Living Together in Germany: A Couple-Level Perspective.","authors":"Valeria Ferraretto, Nicole Hiekel, Agnese Vitali","doi":"10.1007/s10680-025-09740-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-025-09740-y","url":null,"abstract":"Living together marks an important step in the progression of intimate partner relationships. While existing literature highlights the relevance of both partners' economic characteristics for union formation, it remains unclear whether both partners' economic characteristics are equally linked to the transition to co-residence, whether one partner's traits matter more, and how this varies by gender. We address these gaps by examining how the economic characteristics of women and men in non-residential relationships relate to their transition to co-residence. Using 13 waves (2008-2021) of the German Family Panel pairfam and Cox proportional hazards model, we analyse 7165 non-residential relationships, capturing dyadic data on partners' employment status, contract type, and income. Our findings show that economic factors significantly influence the likelihood of moving in together. Couples with two employed partners are most likely to move in together, while gender plays a role when only one partner works-this transition being more likely when the man is employed. Among employed individuals, higher income increases the probability of moving in together for both men and women. Additionally, temporary employment raises the likelihood of starting a co-residence exclusively for women. Overall, results suggest that men's employment status plays a pivotal role in this transition and that union formation is socially stratified among young adults, reinforcing gender inequalities in partnership dynamics.","PeriodicalId":51496,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie","volume":"41 1","pages":"25"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145253762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Quantifying the Role of Self-Declared Obstacles to Unachieved Fertility: Proposing A New Method. 量化自我宣称的障碍对未实现生育的作用：提出一种新方法。

IF 2.6 2区社会学

European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10680-025-09747-5

Qi Cui, Diederik Boertien, Albert Esteve

{"title":"Quantifying the Role of Self-Declared Obstacles to Unachieved Fertility: Proposing A New Method.","authors":"Qi Cui, Diederik Boertien, Albert Esteve","doi":"10.1007/s10680-025-09747-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10680-025-09747-5","url":null,"abstract":"The discrepancies between desired and actual fertility rates are one of the key topics in fertility studies. This paper aims to explore the fertility gap-the difference between desired fertility size and actual fertility outcomes, and how this gap can be decomposed according to the importance of various perceived barriers to fertility. This article introduces an innovative approach to quantify the impact of removing obstacles that individuals report prevent them from having a child (or another child) on the total fertility rate ( <math><mtext>TFR</mtext></math> ). On the one hand, this method offers an alternative perspective on the relationship between the desired number of children and observed fertility outcomes. Unlike conventional analyses that begin with the differences between desired and actual fertility levels, this approach considers that the sum of the fertility gap-defined by the reported reasons that hinder individuals from having children-and the observed fertility level represents the obstacle-removed <math><mtext>TFR</mtext></math> . On the other hand, this method provides a cause-deleted analysis for fertility, addressing a gap in formal demographic analysis which has historically focussed on mortality research. Although this approach introduces some assumptions, the results offer insights into the relative importance of reported obstacles to fertility.","PeriodicalId":51496,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie","volume":"41 1","pages":"24"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12460207/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145132456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Prospective Power of Personality Factors for Family Formation and Dissolution Processes Among Males: Evidence from Swedish Register Data. 男性家庭形成和解体过程中人格因素的前瞻性力量：来自瑞典登记数据的证据。

IF 2.6 2区社会学

European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie Pub Date : 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10680-025-09748-4

Steffen Peters

{"title":"The Prospective Power of Personality Factors for Family Formation and Dissolution Processes Among Males: Evidence from Swedish Register Data.","authors":"Steffen Peters","doi":"10.1007/s10680-025-09748-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10680-025-09748-4","url":null,"abstract":"Personality has increasingly become relevant for family formation processes. However, the association between personality and family formation (dissolution) has been underexplored in demographic research. This study contributes to existing research by examining the prospective association between two personality factors [social maturity (SM), and emotional stability (ES)] and family formation and dissolution processes, i.e., (1) marital status, (2) fertility, and (3) partnership dissolution as both (a) divorce and (b) cohabitation dissolution, based on large Swedish register data. Poisson regression, Linear Probability, and Cox proportional hazard models were applied for different outcomes. Findings suggest that males with high scores on SM and ES measured at age of assignment to military service (17-20 years) are more likely to get married by age 39 and above. Regarding fertility, SM and ES show positive associations with offspring counts and negative associations with the probability of remaining childless by age 39 and above. Relationship dissolution is negatively linked with SM and ES, in particular among the lowest personality scores. Further analyses using sibling comparisons support these findings.","PeriodicalId":51496,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie","volume":"41 1","pages":"23"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12440851/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145071120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Women's Domestic Burden and Gendered Fertility Intentions in Italy: The Role of Parity and Child's Sex. 意大利妇女的家庭负担和性别生育意愿：均等和儿童性别的作用。

IF 2.6 2区社会学

European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10680-025-09743-9

Thaís García-Pereiro, Letizia Mencarini, Raffaella Patimo, Maria Letizia Tanturri

{"title":"Women's Domestic Burden and Gendered Fertility Intentions in Italy: The Role of Parity and Child's Sex.","authors":"Thaís García-Pereiro, Letizia Mencarini, Raffaella Patimo, Maria Letizia Tanturri","doi":"10.1007/s10680-025-09743-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10680-025-09743-9","url":null,"abstract":"In Italy, the unequal distribution of household chores persists, disproportionately affecting women and potentially discouraging fertility intentions. This study explores the relationship between women's domestic burden and reproductive intentions, and how this relationship varies between men and women, depending on the parity achieved and the sex of the child (or children) they already had. The paper relies on data from 2016 ISTAT Survey on Families and Social Subjects. The results find this association only for women (and not for men), and particularly for those working and residing in the Centre-North. Interestingly, unlike previous findings, as the childless women's domestic burden grows, it correlates negatively with their intention to enter motherhood. For mothers, the correlation is somewhat reversed: notably, among mothers with one child, there's a discernible trend where fertility intentions positively align with increasing household burdens, driven by mothers of one daughter. This suggests a potential preference among traditional mothers of a daughter for having another child, while the more egalitarian, i.e., less burdened ones, seem content with the current family size after having a daughter.","PeriodicalId":51496,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie","volume":"41 1","pages":"22"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12391577/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144977863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Spatial Trends in Mortality Convergence: The Cases of France, Italy, and Spain, 1975-2019. 死亡率趋同的空间趋势：1975-2019年法国、意大利和西班牙的案例

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European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie Pub Date : 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10680-025-09745-7

Jacob Martin, Carlo Giovanni Camarda, Timothy Riffe

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Agree to Disagree? Fertility Intentions Among Mixed Couples in Sweden. 同意或不同意？瑞典跨国夫妇的生育意向。

IF 2.6 2区社会学

European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie Pub Date : 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10680-025-09742-w

Eleonora Mussino, Caroline Uggla

{"title":"Agree to Disagree? Fertility Intentions Among Mixed Couples in Sweden.","authors":"Eleonora Mussino, Caroline Uggla","doi":"10.1007/s10680-025-09742-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10680-025-09742-w","url":null,"abstract":"Whether couples agree on having a(nother) child is crucial for both individuals and society. While fertility research has long focused on women, recent studies emphasize the need to incorporate both partners' perspectives. However, analyses that jointly consider men's and women's fertility intentions remain scarce. This focus on women has been partly driven by homogamy-the tendency for individuals to select partners with similar traits and values. Given that couples with mixed backgrounds have higher dissolution rates, they may also be less likely to share family-related beliefs. This study examines how agreement on fertility intentions varies among mixed and homogamous couples in Sweden. Using the 2021 Swedish Generation and Gender Survey (GGS) and stratifying by respondents' gender, we find that most couples agree not to have a(nother) child, reflecting recent fertility declines. Couples where both partners are migrants exhibit the highest agreement, while mixed couples show the most disagreement and the strongest gender asymmetries in reported intentions. However, these differences are small and vary by the gender of the reporting partner. The higher disagreement among mixed couples aligns with broader research on their elevated dissolution risks. However, reverse causality is possible-value differences may be linked to other stressors, making childbearing less desirable. By highlighting the role of couple composition in fertility decision-making, our findings contribute to understanding how family formation dynamics vary across different couple types.","PeriodicalId":51496,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie","volume":"41 1","pages":"20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12328862/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Internal Migration and Loneliness in Childhood: The Moderating Role of Family Structure and Cultural Individualism. 内部迁移与童年孤独：家庭结构和文化个人主义的调节作用

IF 1.9 2区社会学

European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10680-025-09741-x

Aude Bernard, Patricia McMullin, Sergi Vidal

{"title":"Internal Migration and Loneliness in Childhood: The Moderating Role of Family Structure and Cultural Individualism.","authors":"Aude Bernard, Patricia McMullin, Sergi Vidal","doi":"10.1007/s10680-025-09741-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10680-025-09741-x","url":null,"abstract":"The negative impact of childhood internal migration on diverse life outcomes is well documented. The main hypothesis to explain this association is the severance of social ties. However, empirical evidence on the link between internal migration and loneliness in childhood is critically lacking. We address this gap by establishing the association between childhood loneliness and inter and intra-regional migration in Europe. Using retrospective life-history data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe in 26 countries, we run a series of country-fixed effect logistic regression for cohorts born before 1967. We find that the probability of often being lonely is 25-39 per cent higher among children who moved at least once, although having siblings exert a strong protective effect. The strength of the association between loneliness and internal migration dissipates with duration of residence, suggesting that children progressively adjust to new surroundings, particularly if they migrated before starting school. However, the mitigating role of duration of residence diminishes with the number of past moves. Despite the limitations of retrospective survey data, our results show a clear association between internal migration and loneliness, highlight the increased risks of chronic migration among children and lend support to the loss-of-social-networks theory, particularly in individualist societies where friendship plays a greater role in social networks and where children consistently report higher levels of loneliness.","PeriodicalId":51496,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie","volume":"41 1","pages":"18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12279663/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144676447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Swedish Fertility Developments Before, During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic. 在COVID-19大流行之前、期间和之后，瑞典的生育率发展。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10680-025-09744-8

Sofi Ohlsson-Wijk, Gunnar Andersson

{"title":"Swedish Fertility Developments Before, During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Sofi Ohlsson-Wijk, Gunnar Andersson","doi":"10.1007/s10680-025-09744-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10680-025-09744-8","url":null,"abstract":"Many affluent societies saw a temporary increase in their fertility rates in 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. This included a number of countries that had experienced fertility decline during the 2010s, like the Nordic. In the immediate aftermath of the pandemic (2022-2023), fertility rates resumed their previous downward trend. Most research on the pandemic-related fertility trends has relied on aggregate data. Although a few studies have examined group-specific trends, hardly any have covered the post-pandemic years-an important step for revealing whether any uptick in 2021 had a lasting impact on fertility structures. Our study attends to this objective, with a focus on parity and group-specific fertility trends in Sweden before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply event-history techniques to Swedish register data to unveil annual trends of birth risks in 2010-2022, for all Swedish-born women of childbearing age. First- and second-birth risks in 2015-2022 are analysed further across socio-demographic factors. Our study reveals that the \"pandemic pattern\" of fertility increase in 2021 and drop in 2022 was visible among subgroups with better possibilities to prepone already intended births. For example, the fertility increase and subsequent drop was particularly evident for mothers with young children and women with higher education and incomes. The pandemic fertility pattern reflects temporary changes in the timing of childbearing, more specifically a preponement of births that occurred in 2021 with resulting shortfall in 2022. The continued fall in fertility rates in 2023 should be viewed in the light of the long-term fertility decline.","PeriodicalId":51496,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie","volume":"41 1","pages":"19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12279657/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144683590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Fertility among Norwegian Women and Men with Mental Disorders. 挪威精神障碍妇女和男子的生育能力。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10680-025-09739-5

Øystein Kravdal, Martin Flatø, Fartein A Torvik

{"title":"Fertility among Norwegian Women and Men with Mental Disorders.","authors":"Øystein Kravdal, Martin Flatø, Fartein A Torvik","doi":"10.1007/s10680-025-09739-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10680-025-09739-5","url":null,"abstract":"We analysed the associations between mental disorders and women's and men's first-, second- and third-birth rates in 2010-2018, using register data for the full Norwegian population. Having had at least one consultation for depression in primary or specialised health care in the calendar year before the preceding year was associated with lower birth rates. According to a simulation, the birth-rate reduction corresponds to a reduction in completed fertility from 1.60 births per woman among those without any of the mental disorders under study, to 1.34 among those with depression throughout the reproductive period. The corresponding numbers for men were 1.41 and 0.90. The associations between anxiety and fertility were of similar magnitude, while fertility was even lower among individuals with bipolar disorder, eating disorder or personality disorder. The simulated completed fertility was lowest among women and men with schizophrenia (0.36 and 0.16, respectively). However, to the extent that individuals with these mental disorders enter parenthood, many of the estimates suggested that they do so at a relatively early age. The associations between mental disorders and fertility became weaker when partnership, education and income were controlled for, and when characteristics shared by siblings were taken into account in family fixed-effects models.","PeriodicalId":51496,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie","volume":"41 1","pages":"17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12267794/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144644144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Is There an Employment Advantage for Immigrant Women Who Marry Natives in Italy? 在意大利与当地人结婚的移民女性是否有就业优势？

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European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne De Demographie Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10680-025-09734-w

Adda Carla Justiniano Medina, Marie Valentova

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