The Nonmarital Childbearing Network

The Intersection Between Childbearing and Union Status

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New publications:

Perelli-Harris, B., M. Lyons-Amos (2012): "The Heterogeneity of Relationship Patterns within and across countries: an examination of the United States and 14 countries in Europe. IUSSP Working Paper. Prepared for the Seminar on First Union Patters around the World.

Klüsener, S., B. Perelli-Harris, N. Sánchez Gassen (2012): . "Spatial Aspects of the Rise of Nonmarital Fertility across Europe since 1960: The Role of States and Regions in shaping Patterns of Change." European Journal of Population.

Perelli-Harris, B., M. Kreyenfeld, W. Sigle-Rushton, R. Keizer, T. Lappegård, A. Jasilioniene, C. Berghammer, P. Di Giulio (2012): "Changes in union status during the transition to parenthood in eleven European countries, 1970s to early 2000s." Population Studies. 60(2): 167-182.

Perelli-Harris, B., N. Sánchez Gassen (2012): "How Similar Are Cohabitation and Marriage? Legal Approaches to Cohabitation across Western Europe." Population and Development Review. 38(8): 435–467.


Presentations at the Population Association of America, San Francisco, CA, 3-5 May 2012

Lappegård, T., E. Thomson: Intergenerational Transmission of Childbearing across Partnerships.


Presentations at the European Population Conference, Stockholm, 13-16 June 2012

Isupova, O. G., B. Perelli-Harris: Cohabitation, legal policies, and cultural systems: divergence across post-Soviet space.