Diverse Paths into Childlessness over the Life Course

Monika Mynarska (), Anna Matysiak (), Anna Rybiñska (), Valentina Tocchioni () and Daniele Vignoli ()
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Monika Mynarska: Cardinal Stefan Wyszyñski University in Warsaw, Institute of Psychology
Anna Matysiak: Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics
Anna Rybiñska: Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics

No 58, Working Papers from Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics

Abstract: Childlessness is rarely an outcome of a single decision or can be attributed to one particular reason. Remaining childless should rather be seen as a process influenced by continuously changing context and by many choices that individual makes in various life spheres over the life course. Previous studies focused on the effect of accumulated experience of life events on a probability to have no children. Such an approach does not allow for capturing a whole variety of different roads to childlessness that are postulated in the literature. Our paper aims at filling this gap by applying an exploratory approach of sequence analysis. We employ it on Polish and Italian data to reconstruct the major life course trajectories of childless women and to reveal the complexity of life paths leading to childlessness.

Keywords: childlessness; life-course; sequence analysis; Italy; Poland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2013
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