Grasping the Diversity of Cohabitation: Fertility Intentions Among Cohabiters Across Europe

Hiekel, Nicole; Castro-Martín, Teresa

doi:10.1111/jomf.12112

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“…For only parity one and above, being partnered but not married significantly decreases the likelihood of a no-child intention by a factor of 0.5 as compared to being married, while it significantly increases the expected number of intended children by a factor of 1.4. This finding is consistent with prior research documenting a positive effect of cohabitation on fertility intentions, especially when cohabiting is considered as a prelude to marriage (Hiekel and Castro-Martín 2014).…”

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Are daughters’ childbearing intentions related to their mothers’ socio-economic status?

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Osiewalska³

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Section: Regression Analysissupporting

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Are daughters’ childbearing intentions related to their mothers’ socio-economic status?

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Osiewalska³

et al. 2016

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“…This is particularly likely to be the case in countries that have been severely affected by economic crises, and thus have high unemployment rates (Goldstein et al 2013), increasingly precarious employment arrangements, and financial challenges (Testa and Basten 2014). Cohabitation, especially in the form of a prelude to marriage, can smooth the negative education-fertility link, even though fertility is still more likely to occur within marriage (Hiekel et al 2014). It is difficult to make any predictions for the future use of contraception.…”

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Will highly educated women have more children in the future? Looking at reproductive plans and outcomes

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"Will highly educated women have more children in the future?" In this contribution, I address this question by looking at both fertility and fertility intentions; i.e., the number of children people plan to have over their reproductive lives. Intended births are highly correlated with actual births, and in low-fertility settings, childbearing has become associated with the couple's agency. 1 On the other hand, education, which is a marker of income and social status, has remained an important driver of fertility choices. 2 Hence, understanding the reproductive decision-making of women and men with low, medium, and high levels of education is crucial when seeking to determine whether -and if so, to what extent -there is scope for additional policy interventions aimed at raising fertility levels.

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“…As it is the case in more developed countries (Heuveline andTimberlake 2004, Sassler andMiller 2011;Hiekel and Castro-Martín 2014), the meaning attached to cohabitation-as well as the perceived advantages of marriage-is likely to differ across societies in Latin America and across women with different social background (Covre-Sussai et al 2014). Our a priori expectations, in line with traditional patterns and what is still the most common opinion, were that consensual union in the lower social strata would be related to economic constraints and would serve as a surrogate for marriage, and that consensual union in the upper social strata would be related to women's empowerment and would serve as an adaptative strategy to postpone motherhood until marriage.…”

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Childbearing within Marriage and Consensual Union in Latin America, 1980–2010

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Castro-Martín

Cortina

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Population & Development Rev

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This article compares the fertility patterns of women in consensual union and marriage in 13 Latin American countries, using census microdata from the four most recent census rounds and a methodological approach that combines the own‐children method and Poisson regression. Results show that in all these countries, fertility is slightly higher within consensual union than marriage and that the age pattern of fertility is very similar in marital and non‐marital unions. Further analyses show that over the period considered, childbearing within a consensual union has changed from rare to increasingly common, although not yet mainstream, for highly educated women in most countries examined. Results show that in Latin America, at least since the 1980s, women's childbearing patterns depend on their age and on their being in a conjugal relationship, but not on the legal nature of this relationship. The similarities in reproductive behavior between marital and non‐marital unions are not confined to the socially disadvantaged groups, but apply as well to the better off.

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Grasping the Diversity of Cohabitation: Fertility Intentions Among Cohabiters Across Europe

Cited by 59 publications

References 73 publications

Are daughters’ childbearing intentions related to their mothers’ socio-economic status?

Are daughters’ childbearing intentions related to their mothers’ socio-economic status?

Will highly educated women have more children in the future? Looking at reproductive plans and outcomes

Childbearing within Marriage and Consensual Union in Latin America, 1980–2010

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