Beyond a Second Demographic Transition? Fertility and family dynamics in Iceland
This thesis serves to bring Iceland into the realm of Nordic family-demographic and fertility research. Based on event-history techniques applied to Iceland longitudinal register data, I provide an overview of contemporary family-demographic trends during the last few decades. The thesis consists of...
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ftstockholmuniv:oai:DiVA.org:su-180333 2023-05-15T16:44:23+02:00 Beyond a Second Demographic Transition? Fertility and family dynamics in Iceland Jónsson, Ari Klængur 2020 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-180333 eng eng Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen Stockholm : Department of Sociology Dissertation series / Stockholm University Demography Unit, 1404-2304 19 orcid:0000-0001-8978-2632 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-180333 urn:isbn:978-91-7911-134-2 urn:isbn:978-91-7911-135-9 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Family demography Fertility Family formation Cohabitation Nonmarital childbearing Marriage Marital dissolution Iceland Sociology Sociologi Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis text 2020 ftstockholmuniv 2023-02-23T21:43:15Z This thesis serves to bring Iceland into the realm of Nordic family-demographic and fertility research. Based on event-history techniques applied to Iceland longitudinal register data, I provide an overview of contemporary family-demographic trends during the last few decades. The thesis consists of four empirical studies. In Study I, I examine the childbearing trends in Iceland during 1982–2013. I find evidence of postponed motherhood during this period, with increases in fertility rates for women in their 30s and 40s. The propensity to have a second and third child did not decline during the study period; on the contrary, these birth intensities have increased since the mid-1980s. During a period of increased educational attainment and postponed family formation, the resilience of Icelandic fertility is intriguing. Study II provides further insight into recent childbearing dynamics in Iceland and how they may be linked to social-policy reforms and the intervention of the economic crisis in 2008. The findings indicate that changes in standardized birth rates coincided with a reformed family-policy package: A declining trend in standardized first-birth rates came to a halt, and the propensity to have a second and a third child increased. After the onset of the economic crisis, a trend of decreasing first-birth intensities reemerged, which was followed by declining second- and third-birth rates as well. The development in the post-2008 period indicates that even in the most gender-equal settings, the gender balance in family care is still fragile. Study III addresses the high nonmarital birth rate in Iceland. Nowhere in Europe is premarital childbearing as pervasive. Roughly 70% of children were born to unwed mothers in 2018, which, on the surface, puts Iceland at the vanguard of a development often associated with a Second Demographic Transition. In this study I investigate the union-formation behavior during a period of 20 years with the objective to gain insight into the interplay of childbearing, ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Iceland Stockholm University: Publications (DiVA) |
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This thesis serves to bring Iceland into the realm of Nordic family-demographic and fertility research. Based on event-history techniques applied to Iceland longitudinal register data, I provide an overview of contemporary family-demographic trends during the last few decades. The thesis consists of four empirical studies. In Study I, I examine the childbearing trends in Iceland during 1982–2013. I find evidence of postponed motherhood during this period, with increases in fertility rates for women in their 30s and 40s. The propensity to have a second and third child did not decline during the study period; on the contrary, these birth intensities have increased since the mid-1980s. During a period of increased educational attainment and postponed family formation, the resilience of Icelandic fertility is intriguing. Study II provides further insight into recent childbearing dynamics in Iceland and how they may be linked to social-policy reforms and the intervention of the economic crisis in 2008. The findings indicate that changes in standardized birth rates coincided with a reformed family-policy package: A declining trend in standardized first-birth rates came to a halt, and the propensity to have a second and a third child increased. After the onset of the economic crisis, a trend of decreasing first-birth intensities reemerged, which was followed by declining second- and third-birth rates as well. The development in the post-2008 period indicates that even in the most gender-equal settings, the gender balance in family care is still fragile. Study III addresses the high nonmarital birth rate in Iceland. Nowhere in Europe is premarital childbearing as pervasive. Roughly 70% of children were born to unwed mothers in 2018, which, on the surface, puts Iceland at the vanguard of a development often associated with a Second Demographic Transition. In this study I investigate the union-formation behavior during a period of 20 years with the objective to gain insight into the interplay of childbearing, ... |
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Beyond a Second Demographic Transition? Fertility and family dynamics in Iceland |
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Beyond a Second Demographic Transition? Fertility and family dynamics in Iceland |
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Beyond a Second Demographic Transition? Fertility and family dynamics in Iceland |
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Beyond a Second Demographic Transition? Fertility and family dynamics in Iceland |
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Beyond a Second Demographic Transition? Fertility and family dynamics in Iceland |
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Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen |
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