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Tan J. The trifecta of adulthood: Housing, partnering and childbearing trajectories. ADVANCES IN LIFE COURSE RESEARCH 2023; 58:100577. [PMID: 38054870 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2023.100577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Revised: 09/11/2023] [Accepted: 09/15/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
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Substantial changes in residential transitions and family formation patterns have been observed in Western societies, but less attention has been paid to the de-standardisation of adulthood pathways in East Asian contexts, where unique social, economic and cultural circumstances may produce diverse trajectories that are less explored in existing theoretical and empirical frameworks. Adopting a life course perspective, this study identifies the multi-trajectories of housing, partnering and childbearing across adulthood in Taiwan, a setting marked by high housing costs and low fertility rates. Data from the Taiwanese Panel Study of Family Dynamics 2000-2020 (N = 6,931) were used for group-based trajectory modelling, and mixed-effects multinomial regression was employed to examine the likelihood of group membership given early-life resources and social origin. Six common housing-partnering-childbearing trajectories were identified. The most prevalent living arrangement was living in parental homes (50.7%), followed by rental homes (25%), self-owned homes (15.5%) and dorms or other (8.8%). Union formation generally precedes childbearing, whereas housing transitions may occur at various time points. Young adults' home-leaving and homeownership access appear to be closely related to their parental backgrounds, such as their parents' educational attainment and occupational status. Overall, the findings are consistent with the de-standardisation of pathways to adulthood, demonstrating the diversity in adult trajectories and the lack of a single dominant pattern.
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- Jolene Tan
- School of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
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Bergsvik J, Cools S, Hart RK. Explaining Residential Clustering of Large Families. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POPULATION = REVUE EUROPEENNE DE DEMOGRAPHIE 2023; 39:13. [PMID: 37074468 PMCID: PMC10115922 DOI: 10.1007/s10680-023-09655-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2022] [Accepted: 12/27/2022] [Indexed: 04/20/2023]
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Numerous studies have shown that fertility behavior is spatially clustered. In addition to pure contextual effects, two causal mechanisms could drive this pattern. First, neighbors may influence each other's fertility and second, family size may influence decisions about where to live. In this study we examine these two potential causal mechanisms empirically, using the sex composition of the two eldest children and twin births as instrumental variables (IVs) for having a third child. We estimate how having a third child affects three separate outcomes: the fertility of neighbors; the propensity to move houses; and the likelihood of living in a family-friendly neighborhood with many children. We draw residential and childbearing histories (2000-2018) from Norwegian administrative registers (N ~ 167,000 women). Individuals' neighborhoods are defined using time-varying geocoordinates for place of residence. We identify selective moves as one plausible causal driver of residential clustering of large families. This study contributes to the understanding of fertility and relocation, and to the literature on the social interaction effects of fertility, by testing the relevance of yet another network: that of neighbors.
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- Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway
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Her YC, Vergauwen J, Mortelmans D. Nest leaver or home stayer? Sibling influence on parental home leaving in the United Kingdom. ADVANCES IN LIFE COURSE RESEARCH 2022; 52:100464. [PMID: 36652319 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2022.100464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2021] [Revised: 01/03/2022] [Accepted: 01/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Studies have suggested that the timing of leaving one's parental home can be influenced by a number of factors, such as gender, educational background, and parental characteristics. However, despite empirical evidence showing that siblings may influence one another's life course decisions, intragenerational effects on leaving home have not been adequately studied. In this study, we investigated the extent to which an event of a sibling leaving is associated with one's decision to leave the parental home and how demographic sibling characteristics may impact on the association. We also tested whether the number of siblings who left the parental home first is related to one's timing of leaving. Using data from "Understanding Society: The U.K. Household Longitudinal Study", we studied the process of leaving the parental home among 22,719 children and their siblings. The results indicated a positive relationship between leaving of a sibling and the own event of leaving. When siblings are brothers and have a small age gap, and when the nest-leaving sibling is older than the at-risk children, this relationship is even stronger. Finally, the more nest-leaving siblings one has, the less likely one is to stay at home. The findings provide evidence for cross-sibling effects on parental home leaving, underscoring the role of intragenerational associations with respect to life course events.
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- Yu-Chin Her
- Centre for Population, Family and Health, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
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- Centre for Population, Family and Health, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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- Centre for Population, Family and Health, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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Percheski C, Gibson-Davis CM. Marriage, Kids, and the Picket Fence? Household Type and Wealth among U.S. Households, 1989 to 2019. SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2022; 9:159-183. [PMID: 35757678 PMCID: PMC9231596 DOI: 10.15195/v9.a7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Evidence on how parenthood impacts household wealth in the United States has been inconclusive, partially because previous studies have decontextualized parenthood from gender, marital, and relationship status. Yet, insights from economic sociology suggest that wealth-related behaviors are shaped by the intersection of identities, not by a binary classification of parental status. We examine net worth by the intersection of gender, parental, and relationship status during a period of increasing wealth inequality and family diversification. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances from 1989 through 2019, we show that aggregate comparisons between parents and non-parents mask substantial wealth variation across nine household types. Despite changing social selection into marriage and parenthood, married parents consistently held a wealth advantage over demographically similar adults in other household types. Married parents' wealth advantage descriptively arises from homeownership, perhaps because the combined spousal and parental identities are normatively and culturally associated with homeownership.
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- Christine Percheski
- Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 1810 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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Nisén J, Klüsener S, Dahlberg J, Dommermuth L, Jasilioniene A, Kreyenfeld M, Lappegård T, Li P, Martikainen P, Neels K, Riederer B, Te Riele S, Szabó L, Trimarchi A, Viciana F, Wilson B, Myrskylä M. Educational Differences in Cohort Fertility Across Sub-national Regions in Europe. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POPULATION-REVUE EUROPEENNE DE DEMOGRAPHIE 2021; 37:263-295. [PMID: 33597840 PMCID: PMC7864854 DOI: 10.1007/s10680-020-09562-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Educational differences in female cohort fertility vary strongly across high-income countries and over time, but knowledge about how educational fertility differentials play out at the sub-national regional level is limited. Examining these sub-national regional patterns might improve our understanding of national patterns, as regionally varying contextual conditions may affect fertility. This study provides for the first time for a large number of European countries a comprehensive account of educational differences in the cohort fertility rate (CFR) at the sub-national regional level. We harmonise data from population registers, censuses, and large-sample surveys for 15 countries to measure women’s completed fertility by educational level and region of residence at the end of the reproductive lifespan. In order to explore associations between educational differences in CFRs and levels of economic development, we link our data to regional GDP per capita. Empirical Bayesian estimation is used to reduce uncertainty in the regional fertility estimates. We document an overall negative gradient between the CFR and level of education, and notable regional variation in the gradient. The steepness of the gradient is inversely related to the economic development level. It is steepest in the least developed regions and close to zero in the most developed regions. This tendency is observed within countries as well as across all regions of all countries. Our findings underline the variability of educational gradients in women’s fertility, suggest that higher levels of development may be associated with less negative gradients, and call for more in-depth sub-national-level fertility analyses by education.
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- Jessica Nisén
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.,Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany.,Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Sociology, Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.,Population Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Vienna, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Sociology, Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), Stockholm, Sweden
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- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.,Population Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
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Family changes and residential mobility among immigrant and native-born populations: Evidence from Swiss administrative data. DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH 2020. [DOI: 10.4054/demres.2020.43.41] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Family life transitions, residential relocations, and housing in the life course: Current research and opportunities for future work: Introduction to the Special Collection on “Separation, Divorce, and Residential Mobility in a Comparative Perspective”. DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH 2020. [DOI: 10.4054/demres.2020.43.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Remain, leave, or return? Mothers’ location continuity after separation in Belgium. DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH 2020. [DOI: 10.4054/demres.2020.42.9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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André S, Dewilde C, Muffels R. What do housing wealth and tenure have to do with it? Changes in wellbeing of men and women after divorce using Australian panel data. SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH 2019; 78:104-118. [PMID: 30670209 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2017] [Revised: 10/27/2018] [Accepted: 12/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Homeownership, as a way to build up housing wealth, is believed to play an increasingly important role in terms of providing welfare to citizens. However, homeownership does not always act as a nest-egg; it can be a source of financial anxiety as well. In this paper we investigate how homeownership and housing wealth impact on the relationship between divorce and subjective wellbeing (life satisfaction, happiness, financial satisfaction). Using longitudinal data for Australia we find that homeowners are more negatively affected with respect to wellbeing by divorce than tenants, amongst others because the owned house becomes a financial burden. We further find that gender moderates the impact of homeownership and tenure change upon divorce on wellbeing. When women move from an owned to a rented house, divorce has a smaller negative effect on happiness and financial satisfaction than when women stay in the owned house. For men, staying in the owned house or moving within the owner-occupied sector increases happiness, but moving to the rental sector from the owned house increases financial satisfaction. Furthermore, for men, housing wealth mitigates financial stress when remaining in an owner-occupied house after divorce. We conclude that the potential role of homeownership as a welfare resource - in this case for subjective well-being - seems rather limited to those who already possess other resources (e.g. financial security) and therefore cannot be expected to substitute more traditional forms of welfare.
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- Stéfanie André
- Department of Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9102, 6500 HC, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Department of Teaching and Teacher Education, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Sociology /TRANZO, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
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This research addresses the question of whether fertility intentions (before conception) are associated with residential relocations and the distance of the relocation. We empirically tested this using data from two birth cohorts (aged 24-28 and 34-38 in the first survey wave) of the German Family Panel (pairfam) and event history analysis. Bivariate analyses showed that coupled individuals relocated at a higher rate if they intended to have a(nother) child. We found substantial heterogeneity according to individuals' age and parental status, particularly for outside-town relocations. Childless individuals of average age at family formation-a highly mobile group-relocated at a lower rate if they intended to have a child. In contrast, older individuals who already had children-the least-mobile group-relocated at a higher rate if they intended to have another child. Multivariate analyses show that these associations are largely due to adjustments in housing and other living conditions. Our results suggest that anticipatory relocations (before conception) to adapt to growing household size are importantly nuanced by the opportunities and rationales of couples to adjust their living conditions over the life course. Our research contributes to the understanding of residential mobility as a by-product of fertility decisions and, more broadly, evidences that intentions matter and need to be considered in the analysis of family life courses.
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- Sergi Vidal
- Life Course Centre & Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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- Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, Bremen University, Bremen, Germany
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- Institute for Social Sciences, Oldenburg University, Oldenburg, Germany
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Mikolai J, Kulu H. Divorce, Separation, and Housing Changes: A Multiprocess Analysis of Longitudinal Data from England and Wales. Demography 2018; 55:83-106. [PMID: 29322403 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-017-0640-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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This study investigates the effect of marital and nonmarital separation on individuals' residential and housing trajectories. Using rich data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and applying multilevel competing-risks event history models, we analyze the risk of a move of single, married, cohabiting, and separated men and women to different housing types. We distinguish moves due to separation from moves of separated people and account for unobserved codeterminants of moving and separation risks. Our analysis shows that many individuals move due to separation, as expected, but that the likelihood of moving is also relatively high among separated individuals. We find that separation has a long-term effect on individuals' residential careers. Separated women exhibit high moving risks regardless of whether they moved out of the joint home upon separation, whereas separated men who did not move out upon separation are less likely to move. Interestingly, separated women are most likely to move to terraced houses, whereas separated men are equally likely to move to flats (apartments) and terraced (row) houses, suggesting that family structure shapes moving patterns of separated individuals.
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- Júlia Mikolai
- School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, Irvine Building, St Andrews, KY16 9AL, UK.
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- School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, Irvine Building, St Andrews, KY16 9AL, UK
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My house or our home? Transitions into sole home ownership in British couples. DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH 2016. [DOI: 10.4054/demres.2016.35.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Zavisca JR, Gerber TP. The Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Political Effects of Housing in Comparative Perspective. ANNUAL REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY 2016; 42:347-367. [PMID: 30089937 PMCID: PMC6078393 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-081715-074333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Few sociologists treat housing as a key independent variable, despite the emergence of disparate bodies of research analyzing how housing affects outcomes that traditionally interest sociologists. Scholars across the social sciences have proposed and tested mechanisms whereby housing could shape subjective wellbeing, socioeconomic status, demography, and politics. We review the evidence for causal effects across these domains. Next, we make recommendations for research designs to advance this literature. Most studies only test effects of homeownership, and most are focused on the United States and Western Europe. The evidence for causation is often weak, although studies increasingly employ complex techniques for identifying effects. Throughout, we emphasize studies beyond the United States, and we conclude by discussing distinctive insights yielded by comparative research. We advocate for a comparative perspective and more expansive conceptualization of housing status as a means to build theory and evidence regarding the conditions under which housing exerts effects.
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Coulter R, van Ham M, Findlay AM. Re-thinking residential mobility: Linking lives through time and space. PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 2016; 40:352-374. [PMID: 27330243 PMCID: PMC4893457 DOI: 10.1177/0309132515575417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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While researchers are increasingly re-conceptualizing international migration, far less attention has been devoted to re-thinking short-distance residential mobility and immobility. In this paper we harness the life course approach to propose a new conceptual framework for residential mobility research. We contend that residential mobility and immobility should be re-conceptualized as relational practices that link lives through time and space while connecting people to structural conditions. Re-thinking and re-assessing residential mobility by exploiting new developments in longitudinal analysis will allow geographers to understand, critique and address pressing societal challenges.
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- Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and University of St Andrews, UK
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Wealth modifies relationships between kin and women's fertility in high-income countries. Behav Ecol 2014. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/aru059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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