This thesis explores the increasing complexity in the life course in the United Kingdom. The first article illustrates the association between parents’ socio-economic position and children’s transition to first union and parenthood. The analytical sample (N=35,880) is drawn from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) with respondents being born between 1930 and 1980, to examine not only the effect of children’s background on union formation and parenthood but also whether this effect changes over birth cohorts, periods, and the life course, and varies by gender. The results lend support to the hypothesis of a negative relation between socio-economic family background and timing of first union – whether in a marriage or ...
We investigate potential effects of stepfamily status on births in unions in Austria, Finland, Franc...
We investigate the effects of a range of time-varying fertility indicators, including pregnancy, and...
The link between parental socio-economic status (SES) and the likelihood of having a birth in cohabi...
This thesis explores the increasing complexity in the life course in the United Kingdom. The first a...
This thesis investigates how big economic and demographic changes over the past century influence fe...
This thesis is motivated by the wide family changes which started in the 1960s in Europe and the Uni...
In this article, we describe a general framework for the analysis of correlated event histories, wit...
'The paper investigates the relationship of work and family life in Britain. Using hazard regression...
The thesis starts by assessing the proportion of British births that occur after marital dissolution...
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’...
In this article, we describe a general framework for the analysis of correlated event histories, wit...
In this paper, we focus on childbearing after the dissolution of the first marital union. The discus...
We use a stepfamily formation perspective to study two dimensions of the family life course followin...
Opportunities for conceiving and bearing children are fewer when unions are not formed or are dissol...
We investigate the role of parenthood on the outcomes of nonmarital unions for two cohorts of Britis...
We investigate potential effects of stepfamily status on births in unions in Austria, Finland, Franc...
We investigate the effects of a range of time-varying fertility indicators, including pregnancy, and...
The link between parental socio-economic status (SES) and the likelihood of having a birth in cohabi...
This thesis explores the increasing complexity in the life course in the United Kingdom. The first a...
This thesis investigates how big economic and demographic changes over the past century influence fe...
This thesis is motivated by the wide family changes which started in the 1960s in Europe and the Uni...
In this article, we describe a general framework for the analysis of correlated event histories, wit...
'The paper investigates the relationship of work and family life in Britain. Using hazard regression...
The thesis starts by assessing the proportion of British births that occur after marital dissolution...
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’...
In this article, we describe a general framework for the analysis of correlated event histories, wit...
In this paper, we focus on childbearing after the dissolution of the first marital union. The discus...
We use a stepfamily formation perspective to study two dimensions of the family life course followin...
Opportunities for conceiving and bearing children are fewer when unions are not formed or are dissol...
We investigate the role of parenthood on the outcomes of nonmarital unions for two cohorts of Britis...
We investigate potential effects of stepfamily status on births in unions in Austria, Finland, Franc...
We investigate the effects of a range of time-varying fertility indicators, including pregnancy, and...
The link between parental socio-economic status (SES) and the likelihood of having a birth in cohabi...