Social Influences on Fertility

Bernardi, Laura; Keim, Sylvia; Lippe, Holger von der

doi:10.1177/2345678906292238

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“…Second, compared to higher educated mothers, lower educated mothers more often lack social, economic, and personal resources that help cope with parenting stress [40,41], which in turn may strengthen the chain of risk factors resulting in weight gain. In Germany, protective resources are strongly stratified by education [42,43], suggesting that lower educated women are more vulnerable to the effects of motherhood on weight gain.…”

Section: Education Motherhood and Weight Gain In The German Contextmentioning

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Education differences in women’s body weight trajectories: The role of motherhood

Kröger

Leopold

2020

PLoS ONE

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Studies have found that education differences in women's body weight increase until middle adulthood. The explanatory mechanisms behind this increase are not well-understood. This study examined the role of education differences in the prevalence of motherhood as a risk factor for weight gain and in vulnerability to its effects on weight gain. We used longitudinal data from the German Socioeconomic Panel Study. Our sample included 2,668 women aged between 17 and 45 and observed at least twice between 2002 and 2016 (n = 13,899 panel observations). We used OLS regression models to estimate initial education differences in body weight and fixed-effects panel regression models to estimate education differences in bodyweight trajectories. Motherhood was associated with increasing body weight, and the effects of motherhood on weight gain varied by education. Motherhood partially accounted for the increase of education differences during reproductive age. Until the age of 30, differences in the prevalence of motherhood accounted for about 20% of the bodyweight gap between lower and higher educated women. From age 35 until 45, differential vulnerability to the effects of motherhood on body weight explained about 15% of the education gap in body weight.

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Section: Education Motherhood and Weight Gain In The German Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Education differences in women’s body weight trajectories: The role of motherhood

Kröger

Leopold

2020

PLoS ONE

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“…Although additional empirical research has recently emerged, it remains limited due to the lack of suitable network data and the complexity of the analysis required to identify social interaction effects and disentangle them from confounding effects. Until now, next to the qualitative work of Bernardi and colleagues (e.g., Bernardi, 2003;Bernardi et al, 2007;Keim et al, 2009), which provided relevant insights into how social influence and learning operate to impact fertility choices in advanced societies, some recent studies adopted a quantitative approach to examining fertility outcomes. They empirically demonstrated that social interactions among siblings (Kuziemko, 2006;Lyngstad & Prskawetz, 2010), co-workers (Ciliberto et al, 2010;Hensvik & Nilsson, 2010), friends (Balbo & Barban, 2014), and peers belonging to the same ethnic-religious group (Manski & Mayshar, 2003) shape an individual's fertility decisions.…”

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Cross-friend effects on entry into marriage and parenthood: A multiprocess approach

Balbo¹,

Barban²,

Mills³

2017

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This paper aims to investigate whether friends’ and peers’ behavior influences an individual’s entry into marriage and parenthood of young adults in the United States. After first studying entry into marriage and parenthood as two independent events, we then examine them as interrelated processes, thereby considering them as two joint outcomes of an individual’s unique, underlying family-formation strategy. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we engage in a series of discrete time event history models to test whether the larger the number of friends and peers who get married (or have a child), the sooner the individual gets married (or has a child). Results show strong cross-friend effects on entry into parenthood, whereas entry into marriage is only affected by more general contextual effects. Estimates of a multiprocess model show that cross-friend effects on entry into parenthood remain strongly significant even when we control for cross-process unobserved heterogeneity.

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“…Intergenerational fertility correlations can be found consistently in developed countries and are increasing over time [4][5][6]. Most social scientists have explained these fertility continuities in terms of values transmitted from parents to children [8, 17 -20].…”

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“…This reduction in fertility, called the fertility transition, is well known and widely documented [1][2][3]. A slightly less well-known but related phenomenon is that the correlation between parent and child fertility has increased from insignificant levels prior to the fertility transition, to moderate and increasing levels in contemporary societies [4][5][6]. This correlation may be genetic, cultural or some combination of the two [7][8][9][10][11][12][13].…”

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Correlations in fertility across generations: can low fertility persist?

2014

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Correlations in family size across generations could have a major influence on human population size in the future. Empirical studies have shown that the associations between the fertility of parents and the fertility of children are substantial and growing over time. Despite their potential long-term consequences, intergenerational fertility correlations have largely been ignored by researchers. We present a model of the fertility transition as a cultural process acting on new lifestyles associated with fertility. Differences in parental and social influences on the acquisition of these lifestyles result in intergenerational correlations in fertility. We show different scenarios for future population size based on models that disregard intergenerational correlations in fertility, models with fertility correlations and a single lifestyle, and models with fertility correlations and multiple lifestyles. We show that intergenerational fertility correlations will result in an increase in fertility over time. However, present low-fertility levels may persist if the rapid introduction of new cultural lifestyles continues into the future.

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Social Influences on Fertility

Cited by 69 publications

References 27 publications

Education differences in women’s body weight trajectories: The role of motherhood

Education differences in women’s body weight trajectories: The role of motherhood

Cross-friend effects on entry into marriage and parenthood: A multiprocess approach

Correlations in fertility across generations: can low fertility persist?

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