Recent features of cohabitational and marital fertility in Romania

Jan M. Hoem, Cornelia Mureşan and Mihaela Hărăguş
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Jan M. Hoem: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Cornelia Mureşan: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

No WP-2013-007, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Abstract: Until the late 1980s there was little non-marital cohabitation in Romania; time in consensual unions constituted only a few per cent of the total time spent in unions every year. After the fall of state socialism, the overall fraction in consensual unions grew steadily, and by 2005 it had reached some ten per cent. This development had consequences for the patterns of childbearing. The purpose of the present paper is to display selected features of fertility in consensual and marital unions in Romania over the period 1985-2005 based on the data from the national Generations and Gender Survey of 2005. To this end we use underlying fertility rates specified by union duration and utilize a metric based on an aggregation of such rates over all durations, irrespective of parity. We also highlight groups of women who have been particularly prone to have children outside marriage. This turns out to be women with a low educational attainment and women of a rural origin. Women in consensual unions in these two groups were especially strongly affected by the dramatic changes in family policies around 1990, and their aggregate fertility in cohabitational unions in subsequent years is largely of the same size order as in marital unions. For the fertility of partnered women in the two groups it does not seem to matter much whether they are married.

Keywords: Romania; event history analysis; fertility; fertility rate; premarital cohabitation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2013-007

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