Twins or two single children

Rainer Walke
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Rainer Walke: Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung

Demographic Research, 2002, vol. 7, issue 9, 379-390

Abstract: Based on Swedish register data, we compared the influence of a twin birth on the divorce risk with the influence of the sequential birth of two single children. The divorce risk for a woman with a very young child was lower than the risk for women without children or women with children older than 3.5 years. This behaviour was essentially independent of the number of children and whether or not the woman gave birth to twins. The effect of parity was much smaller than the effect of child age. The influence of twins on the divorce risk appeared to fall between that of a first and a second singleton.

Keywords: birth interval; data analysis; divorce; event history analysis; parity; Sweden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2002.7.9

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