Family life in power couples.

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

“…The male partner working more than a full-time schedule (i.e., more than 40 hours per week) was the only significant predictor associated with a higher first birth probability; this might be explained by the fact that in our model, this indicator captured actual earnings rather than potential earnings, especially for less educated men (Andersson 2000;Dribe and Stanfors 2010). Moreover, the fact that the male partners' work patterns mattered less during the transition to parenthood may be related not only to the higher opportunity costs of childbirth that women face, but also to the fact that there was less variability among men than women in terms of occupational trajectory and work status (see descriptive statistics in Appendix A).…”

Retirement timing and grandparenthood: A population-based study on Sweden

“…Overall, grandmothers have been shown to have more frequent contact with their grandchildren and to be more engaged in grandchild care than grandfathers (Albertini, Kohli, and Vogel 2007;Gray 2005;Hank and Buber 2009;Reitzes and Mutran 2004). However, due to mothers and fathers' similar levels of engagement with their children, relatively high gender equality and labor market participation over time, and lower demand for frequent and regular grandchild care (Dribe and Stanfors 2010), in Sweden grandmothers and grandfathers might be similarly affected by grandparenthood. Certain dimensions of grandparenthood have been shown to have small or nonexistent gender differences, such as satisfaction with grandparenthood (Reitzes and Mutran 2004;Thiele and Whelan 2006) and perceptions of grandparenthood as a means of engaging more in family relations (Szinovacz and Davey 2001).…”

The mid-twentieth century Baby Boom and the changing educational gradient in Belgian cohort fertility

“…Theoretically, the conventional explanation is that the negative price effects of children (i.e. the opportunity costs of childbearing) outweigh the positive income effects of education on fertility for women (but not for men) (Kravdal 1994;Gustafsson 2001;Joshi 2002;Kravdal and Rindfuss 2008) -although more recent evidence about contemporary dual-career, high income couples in Sweden indicates that this does not always need to be the case (Dribe and Stanfors 2010;Tesching 2012).…”