This paper uses immigration to investigate the intergenerational transmission of culture. The
culture is proxied by nonmarital fertility and age at the first birth in the immigrant's home …

Women's life courses underwent substantial changes in the family and work domains in the
second half of the twentieth century. The associated fundamental changes in opportunity …

Objective We propose a life course theoretical framework for understanding variation in
family life courses between birth cohorts (historical time), societies (place), and social …

Over the last decades, the life course has become an established framework for studying the
dynamics of human behaviour in sociology and adjacent fields of social science. Fuelled by …

Nigeria's population is currently estimated at 216million and the country will be the third
most populous in the world in 2050. A major driver of the high population growth is …

Studies in low-fertility settings have consistently found positive relationships between
parents' and children's fertility timing and family sizes, and these persist after accounting for …

This paper uses immigration as a semi-natural experiment to investigate the
intergenerational transmission of culture. The culture is proxied by rates of nonmarital birth …

BACKGROUND Discrete-time event history analysis (EHA) is the standard approach taken
when modelling fertility histories collected in surveys, where the date of birth is often …

Although extensive research investigates the consequences of teenage motherhood, there
is still very limited research exploring young mothers' experiences in their own voices. This …

Abstract The Law on Marriage has been amended, but the prevalence of child marriage has
not been reduced significantly. Grobogan is one of the areas with the highest prevalence of …