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Having a child within a cohabiting union in Europe and North America: What is the role of parents' socio-economic status?
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Abstract The link between parental socio-economic status (SES) and the likelihood of having a birth in cohabitation or in marriage varies considerably across countries. Previous studies have referred to the pattern of disadvantage perspective and the second demographic transition theory to explain this cross... view more
The link between parental socio-economic status (SES) and the likelihood of having a birth in cohabitation or in marriage varies considerably across countries. Previous studies have referred to the pattern of disadvantage perspective and the second demographic transition theory to explain this cross-national variation. Yet no study has directly tested the explanatory power of both theories in this context. In the current study, hypotheses are formulated about the influence of economic inequality and norms regarding family formation on this relationship. The hypotheses are tested in 19 European and North American countries, using data of the Generations and Gender Survey and four other datasets. The analyses show that in societies that have more traditional family formation norms, women with lower parental SES are more likely to have a birth in cohabitation whereas such differences are not found in less traditional societies. The influence of economic inequality is less clear-cut.... view less
Keywords
EVS; child; parents; socioeconomic factors; domestic partnership; fertility; deprivation; demographic transition; marriage; birth trend; family education; Europe; North America
Classification
Family Sociology, Sociology of Sexual Behavior
Free Keywords
cohabitation; cross-national research; nonmarital fertility; parental socio-economic status; pattern of disadvantage; second demographic transition; European Values Study Longitudinal Data File 1981-2008 (EVS 1981-2008) (ZA4804 v2.0.0)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 1-15
Journal
Population, Space and Place, 27 (2021) 6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2434
ISSN
1544-8452
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0