Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Iacovou, Maria
Author-Name: Patrício Tavares, Lara
Title: Yearning, learning and conceding: (some of) the reasons people change their childbearing intentions
Abstract: People’s childbearing intentions change over their lives. These changes are sometimes conceptualised as a response to constraints such as the biological clock or lack of a partner. However, we find that they are influenced by a much wider range of factors: social norms; adaptation to the wishes of a partner; re-partnering; and learning about the costs and benefits of parenthood. In a departure from existing studies we analyse increases in planned fertility separately from decreases; we conclude that the determinants of increases in planned fertility are not simply equal and opposite to the determinants of decreases.

Creation-Date: 20100701
Number: 2010-22
Publication-Status: published
File-URL: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/working-papers/iser/2010-22.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:ese:iserwp:2010-22