Essays on Family Dynamics: Partnering, Fertility and Divorce in Sweden
2019 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
Diversity in household and family structures poses interesting questions for scientific inquiry. What accounts for patterns of reproduction, partnering, household formation and household dissolution? This dissertation investigates facets of this question in the context of modern Sweden from a longitudinal and individual level perspective. It consists of three empirical studies using data from administrative registers and panel survey data. The first study begins with noting a rapid expansion in online education and analyzes whether this development leads to higher fertility in student populations. The second study asks whether individuals’ predispositions towards divorce change after exposure to the experience of parenthood, union formation and union dissolution. The third study builds on the literature on assortative mating and investigates what drives underlying preferences for this behavior.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Department of Sociology, Stockholm University , 2019.
Series
Swedish Institute for Social Research, ISSN 0283-8222 ; 102
Keywords [en]
Fertility, Divorce attitudes, Sweden, Educational Homogamy, Life Course, Family Dynamics
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-164767ISBN: 978-91-7797-522-9 (print)ISBN: 978-91-7797-523-6 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-164767DiVA, id: diva2:1280273
Public defence
2019-03-08, Nordenskiöldsalen, Geovetenskapens Hus, Svante Arrhenius väg 12, Stockholm, 10:00 (English)
Opponent
Supervisors
Note
At the time of the doctoral defense, the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: Manuscript.
2019-02-132019-01-182022-02-26Bibliographically approved
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