Becoming a parent in East Germany during the 1990s. The impact of personal considerations on the timing of entry to parenthood

Holger von der Lippe and Gunnar Andersson
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Holger von der Lippe: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Gunnar Andersson: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

No WP-2005-008, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Abstract: This paper deals with psychological determinants of fertility differentials in East Germany in the 1990s. We test the explanatory and statistical power of psychological covariates in an event-history model of first-birth intensities together with other covariates. We show that different psychological covariates (wishes and fears, coping-styles, etc.) are important determinants of the transition to parenthood. A crucial finding is the existence of strong sex differentials in such impacts.

Keywords: Germany (Neue Bundesländer); fertility determinants; sex differentials; social psychology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2005-008

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