Billingsley, Sunnee (Date of defense: 2009-09-23)
In this thesis, I analyze the contribution of the economic context to the fertility and mortality crises that took place across the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe during the transition ...
Rutigliano, Roberta (Date of defense: 2017-11-30)
This thesis investigates how big economic and demographic changes over the past century influence fertility dynamics with a particular focus on family ties. The first chapter investigates the role of ...
Luppi, Francesca (Date of defense: 2015-03-27)
This thesis aims to study the relationship between fertility and subjective wellbeing in a sample of Australian couples (source: HILDA 2001-2009), followed from the year of the pregnancy with the first ...
Ciganda, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-01-31)
The three chapters included in this dissertation aim to improve our understanding of the distance between people's desires regarding the timing and the number of children they want to have and what they ...
Delclós Gómez-Morán, Carlos Eric (Date of defense: 2014-09-22)
Esta tesis analiza la natalidad en España a principios del S.XXI. Incluye tres capítulos empíricos sobre el impacto de los factores culturales sobre la natalidad, el impacto de los factores estructurales ...
Kraus, Elisabeth Katharina (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
This dissertation tries to shed new light on the relationship between migration and fertility by concentrating on two migration contexts and applying different quantitative methods and taking various ...
Di Nallo, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2019-02-21)
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 ...
Nie, Wanli (Date of defense: 2019-10-31)
The dissertation investigates the interrelationship between migration and family behaviours, marriage and fertility, in the Chinese context. I apply event history techniques using data from an ethno-survey, ...