Monday, March 27, 2017

European Journal of Population

European Journal of Population
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European Journal of Population


Does Living in a Fatherless Household Compromise Educational Success? A Comparative Study of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

This study addresses the relationship between various family forms and the level of cognitive and non-cognitive skills among 15- to 16-year-old students. We measure cognitive skills using standardized scores i... 
Jonas Radl, Leire Salazar, Héctor Cebolla-Boado in European Journal of Population (2017)
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Family Trajectories and Well-being of Children Born to Lone Mothers in the UK

We investigate how lone mothers’ heterogeneity in partnership trajectories is associated with children’s well-being. We use data from the Millennium Cohort Study, which follows a large sample of children born ...
Elena Mariani, Berkay Özcan, Alice Goisis in European Journal of Population (2017)
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Parental Separation and School Performance Among Children of Immigrant Mothers in Sweden

Immigration and family change are two demographic processes that have changed the face of European societies and are associated with inequalities in child outcomes. Yet there is little research outside the USA...
Jeylan Erman, Juho Härkönen in European Journal of Population (2017)
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Explaining Conflicting Results in Research on the Heterogeneous Effects of Parental Separation on Children’s Educational Attainment According to Social Background

In recent years, researchers have become increasingly interested in how the effects of parental separation on children’s educational attainment vary with social background. On the one hand, parents with more r...
Fabrizio Bernardi, Diederik Boertien in European Journal of Population (2017)
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Changes in Employment Uncertainty and the Fertility Intention–Realization Link: An Analysis Based on the Swiss Household Panel

How do changes in employment uncertainty matter for fertility? Empirical studies on the impact of employment uncertainty on reproductive decision-making offer a variety of conclusions, ranging from gender and ...
Doris Hanappi, Valérie-Anne Ryser, Laura Bernardi… in European Journal of Population (2017)
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Choosing to Remain Childless? A Comparative Study of Fertility Intentions Among Women and Men in Italy and Britain

Pathways to childlessness may differ not only between individuals but also at the population level. This paper investigates differences in childlessness by comparing two countries—Britain and Italy—where level...
Francesca Fiori, Francesca Rinesi, Elspeth Graham in European Journal of Population (2017)
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Influence of Heterogamy by Religion on Risk of Marital Dissolution: A Cohort Study of 20,000 Couples

Heterogamous marriages, in which partners have dissimilar attributes (e.g. by socio-economic status or ethnicity), are often at elevated risk of dissolution. We investigated the influences of heterogamy by rel...
David M. Wright, Michael Rosato, Dermot O’Reilly in European Journal of Population (2017)
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Surviving the Holocaust: Socio-demographic Differences Among Amsterdam Jews

This study determined the victimisation rate among Amsterdam Jews and socio-demographic differences in surviving the Holocaust. After linking a registration list of over 77,000 Jewish inhabitants in 1941 to po...
Peter Tammes in European Journal of Population (2017)
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