Does his paycheck also matter?

Jalovaara, Marika; Miettinen, Anneli

doi:10.4054/demres.2013.28.31

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“…Additionally, the findings indicated that the degree of interdependence of the partners was small, a conclusion that is in line with that of a recent study using Finnish register data on socioeconomic resources and first birth timing among couples (Jalovaara and Miettinen 2013). With regard to the effects of individual characteristics, the results for the female partners were fully consistent with the theoretical expectations: if a woman had a higher earning potential and had recently moved up in her career, the transition to parenthood was delayed.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…While this may seem obvious, many studies on the interrelationship between paid work, education, and childbearing focus on women only. Previous research has confirmed that both partners in a couple influence decisions about having children (Beckman 1984;Coombs and Chang 1981;Corijn, Liefbroer, and de Jong Gierveld 1996;Jalovaara and Miettinen 2013;Jansen and Liefbroer 2006;Thomson 1997;Vignoli, Drefahl, and De Santis 2012), but the lack of suitable couple data often causes fertility researchers to focus only on women. This can be problematic because the exclusion of partner information has been shown to lead to an overestimation of the negative effects of women's employment on fertility (Matysiak and Vignoli 2008).…”

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How do educational and occupational resources relate to the timing of family formation? A couple analysis of the Netherlands

Begall¹

2013

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How do educational and occupational resources relate to the timing of family formation? A couple analysis of the Netherlands

Begall¹

2013

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“…Furthermore, the measure of unemployment is based on reception of any unemployment benefits in the given year, rather than begin economically inactive. Jalovaara and Miettinen (2013) finds weak effects of such periods of unemployment on the transition to parenthood, while being economically inactive is substantially more important.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, it should be noted that studies of the transition to parenthood using predicted wages rather than observed earnings have found significant negative effects for Norway: Rønsen (2004) finds an overall negative effect, and Kornstad and Rønsen (2014) find significant negative effects of wages at the average level or lower. For men, Lappegård, and Rønsen (2013) and Jalovaara and Miettinen (2013) find positive correlation between annual earnings and the transition to parenthood, while some older Swedish studies find an insignificant (Heckman and Walker 1990) or even, in some specifications negative effects (Taşiran 1995).…”

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Earnings and first birth probability among Norwegian men and women 1995-2010

Hart¹

2015

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BACKGROUNDThe relationship between earnings and fertility and how it varies with context are among the core investigations of demography. Cross-country comparisons show that when parenting and employment are in conflict, this relationship is less positive for women. We lack knowledge of how this relationship is shaped by context for men and how it varies with contextual changes over time rather than between countries. OBJECTIVE I investigate how the relationship between earnings and first-birth probability changes over time for men and women, in a period when efforts in parenting and paid work become increasingly similar across sex. METHODSDiscrete-time hazard regressions are applied to highly accurate data from Norwegian population registers. Through estimation of separate models for each of the years 1995 through 2010, I assess whether the correlation between yearly earnings and the first birth probabilities changed over period time. The correlation is estimated net of observable confounders, such as educational enrolment and attainment and region of birth. RESULTSThe correlation between earnings and fertility has become substantially more positive over time for women, and also somewhat more positive among men. CONCLUSIONSThough the potential opportunity cost of fathering increases, there is no evidence of a weaker correlation between earnings and first birth probability for men. I suggest that decreasing opportunity costs of motherhood as well as strategic timing of fertility are both plausible explanations for the increasingly positive correlation among women.

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“…Evidence from Norway, for example, has shown that parental education directly affects the entry into a first union (Wiik 2008). In addition, recent studies analyzing Finnish data demonstrated an educational gradient in family formation: persons with low education are more likely to experience early parenthood (Jalovaara and Miettinen 2013) and have a higher risk of partnership dissolution (Jalovaara 2013). …”

Section: Finnish Census Panelmentioning

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Sibling Similarity in Family Formation

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Sibling studies have been widely used to analyze the impact of family background on socioeconomic and, to a lesser extent, demographic outcomes. We contribute to this literature with a novel research design that combines sibling comparisons and sequence analysis to analyze longitudinal family-formation trajectories of siblings and unrelated persons. This allows us to scrutinize in a more rigorous way whether sibling similarity exists in family-formation trajectories and whether siblings' shared background characteristics, such as parental education and early childhood family structure, can account for similarity in family formation. We use Finnish register data from 1987 through 2007 to construct longitudinal family-formation trajectories in young adulthood for siblings and unrelated dyads (N = 14,257 dyads). Findings show that family formation is moderately but significantly more similar for siblings than for unrelated dyads, also after controlling for crucial parental background characteristics. Shared parental background characteristics add surprisingly little to account for sibling similarity in family formation. Instead, gender and the respondents' own education are more decisive forces in the stratification of family formation. Yet, family internal dynamics seem to reinforce this stratification such that siblings have a higher probability to experience similar family-formation patterns. In particular, patterns that correspond with economic disadvantage are concentrated within families. This is in line with a growing body of research highlighting the importance of family structure in the reproduction of social inequality.

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Does his paycheck also matter?

Cited by 51 publications

References 54 publications

How do educational and occupational resources relate to the timing of family formation? A couple analysis of the Netherlands

How do educational and occupational resources relate to the timing of family formation? A couple analysis of the Netherlands

Earnings and first birth probability among Norwegian men and women 1995-2010

Sibling Similarity in Family Formation

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