NDLI: Social Background and Becoming a Parent in Sweden: A Register-Based Study of the Effect of Social Background on Childbearing in Sweden

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Dahlberg, Johan
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	In this study, I introduce three measures of social background, namely occupational class, social status, and parental education, into fertility research. The objective is to examine whether these dimensions of social background affect entry into parenthood even after controlling for several potential pathways. I estimate event history models on first birth rates using data, which include all Swedes born in 1960. The results show that each of the three dimensions of social background has a clear bivariate association with the risk of becoming a parent, both for men and for women. Parental education has the strongest effect of class and status background, and the latter two do not affect the entry into fatherhood when the effects of all dimensions of social background are estimated simultaneously. Much of the remaining association between social background and fertility persists when controlling for own educational history, mother’s age at first birth, and father’s mean incomes. The results also show that higher social background leads to postponement of childbearing but that it has no effect on the final likelihood of ever become a parent. The influence of social background on fertility is stronger for women than for men.
Starting Page	417
Ending Page	444
Page Count	28
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01686577
Journal	European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie
Volume Number	31
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15729885
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-08-26
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Social background Stratification Intergenerational transmission of fertility Class reproduction Demography Sociology Human Geography Population Economics Public Finance & Economics Methodology of the Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Demography

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