Increasingly Heterogeneous Ages at First Birth by Education in 'Conservative' Southern-European and 'Liberal' Anglo-American Family-Policy Regimes

49 Pages Posted: 2 Apr 2009

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Michael S. Rendall

RAND Corporation

Encarnacion Aracil

Complutense University of Madrid

Christos Bagavos

Panteion University of Athens - Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences

Christine Couet

National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE)

Alessandra DeRose

Sapienza University of Rome

Paola DiGiulio

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Trude Lappegard

Statistics Norway

Isabelle Robert-Bobee

National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE); National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) - Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST)

Marit Rønsen

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Steve Smallwood

Government of the United Kingdom - Office for National Statistics

Georgia Verropoulou

University of Piraeus

Date Written: March 27, 2009

Abstract

The claim that family-policy regime may influence socio-economic differentials in fertility has to date been explored mainly with respect to 'liberal' Anglo-American regimes. The authors broaden the contrast with 'family-friendly' regimes here to include in the 'family-unfriendly' group 'conservative' Southern European regimes. Comparing education differentials in age at first birth, they find educationally-heterogeneous shifts between 1950s and 1960s birth cohorts of women in Greece, Italy, and Spain. The patterns of these shifts are similar to those seen for British and American birth cohorts, and contrast with educationally-homogeneous shifts across birth cohorts in Norway and France. They argue that these findings support the hypothesis that the role of family-policy regime in mediating growth in socio-economic differentials in fertility has increased as combining employment and family has become more normative among women throughout industrialized countries.

Suggested Citation

Rendall, Michael S. and Aracil, Encarnacion and Bagavos, Christos and Couet, Christine and DeRose, Alessandra and DiGiulio, Paola and Lappegard, Trude and Robert-Bobee, Isabelle and Rønsen, Marit and Smallwood, Steve and Verropoulou, Georgia, Increasingly Heterogeneous Ages at First Birth by Education in 'Conservative' Southern-European and 'Liberal' Anglo-American Family-Policy Regimes (March 27, 2009). RAND Working Paper Series No. WR- 676, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1369358 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1369358

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Encarnacion Aracil

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Christos Bagavos

Panteion University of Athens - Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences ( email )

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Christine Couet

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Alessandra DeRose

Sapienza University of Rome ( email )

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Paola DiGiulio

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Trude Lappegard

Statistics Norway ( email )

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Isabelle Robert-Bobee

National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) ( email )

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France

National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) - Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST)

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France

Marit Rønsen

affiliation not provided to SSRN ( email )

Steve Smallwood

Government of the United Kingdom - Office for National Statistics ( email )

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United Kingdom

Georgia Verropoulou

University of Piraeus ( email )

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Piraeus, Attiki 18534
Greece

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