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The Influence of Parental Educational Attainment on the Partnership Context at First Birth in 16 Western Societies
In the US, growing up with parents with a low socio-economic status (SES) has been shown to increase the chance of having a birth outside marriage. However, less is known about the influence of parental SES in other Western countries. The current paper examines the association between parental educa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646102/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29081562 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10680-017-9421-9 |
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author | Koops, Judith C. Liefbroer, Aart C. Gauthier, Anne H. |
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description | In the US, growing up with parents with a low socio-economic status (SES) has been shown to increase the chance of having a birth outside marriage. However, less is known about the influence of parental SES in other Western countries. The current paper examines the association between parental educational attainment with the partnership context at first birth in 16 European and North American countries, by differentiating births within marriage, within cohabitation, or while being single. Moreover, we test whether the association between parental education and partnership context at childbirth changes over cohorts and whether its influence changes when controlling for own educational attainment. Data from the Generations and Gender Programme were used, as well as data from the American National Survey of Family Growth, the Canadian General Social Survey, and the Dutch Survey on Family Formation. The results show that in North American and East European countries, but not in West European countries, lower parental education increases the risk of having a birth within cohabitation. Moreover, in North American countries and half of the West and East European countries, lower parental education increases the risk of having a birth while being single. The association of parental education with the partnership context at birth tends to change furthermore over cohorts, although no clear pattern could be observed between countries. The study suggests that the intergenerational transmission of education is an important mechanism in explaining the influence of parental education, although other mechanisms also appear to be at work. |
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spelling | pubmed-56461022017-10-27 The Influence of Parental Educational Attainment on the Partnership Context at First Birth in 16 Western Societies Koops, Judith C. Liefbroer, Aart C. Gauthier, Anne H. Eur J Popul Article In the US, growing up with parents with a low socio-economic status (SES) has been shown to increase the chance of having a birth outside marriage. However, less is known about the influence of parental SES in other Western countries. The current paper examines the association between parental educational attainment with the partnership context at first birth in 16 European and North American countries, by differentiating births within marriage, within cohabitation, or while being single. Moreover, we test whether the association between parental education and partnership context at childbirth changes over cohorts and whether its influence changes when controlling for own educational attainment. Data from the Generations and Gender Programme were used, as well as data from the American National Survey of Family Growth, the Canadian General Social Survey, and the Dutch Survey on Family Formation. The results show that in North American and East European countries, but not in West European countries, lower parental education increases the risk of having a birth within cohabitation. Moreover, in North American countries and half of the West and East European countries, lower parental education increases the risk of having a birth while being single. The association of parental education with the partnership context at birth tends to change furthermore over cohorts, although no clear pattern could be observed between countries. The study suggests that the intergenerational transmission of education is an important mechanism in explaining the influence of parental education, although other mechanisms also appear to be at work. Springer Netherlands 2017-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5646102/ /pubmed/29081562 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10680-017-9421-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Koops, Judith C. Liefbroer, Aart C. Gauthier, Anne H. The Influence of Parental Educational Attainment on the Partnership Context at First Birth in 16 Western Societies |
title | The Influence of Parental Educational Attainment on the Partnership Context at First Birth in 16 Western Societies |
title_full | The Influence of Parental Educational Attainment on the Partnership Context at First Birth in 16 Western Societies |
title_fullStr | The Influence of Parental Educational Attainment on the Partnership Context at First Birth in 16 Western Societies |
title_full_unstemmed | The Influence of Parental Educational Attainment on the Partnership Context at First Birth in 16 Western Societies |
title_short | The Influence of Parental Educational Attainment on the Partnership Context at First Birth in 16 Western Societies |
title_sort | influence of parental educational attainment on the partnership context at first birth in 16 western societies |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646102/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29081562 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10680-017-9421-9 |
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