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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1353/dem.2004.0028
	Birth month, school graduation, and the timing of births and marriages.
	Skirbekk V; Kohler H-P; Prskawetz A
发表日期	2004
出处	Demography 41 (3): 547-568
出版年	2004
语种	英语
摘要	We investigated the timing of fertility and marriage in Sweden using exogenous variation in the age at school graduation that results from differences in birth month. Our analysis found that the difference of 11 months in the age at leaving school between women who were born in two consecutive months, December and January, implies a delay in the age at first birth of 4.9 months. This effect of delayed graduation also persists for the timing of second births and first marriages, but it does not affect completed fertility or the overall probability of marriage before age 45. These results suggest the existence of a relatively rigid sequencing of demographic events in early adulthood, and the age at graduation from school emerges as an important factor in determining the timing - but not the quantum - of family formation. In addition, these effects point to a potentially important influence of social age, defined by an individual's school cohort, instead of biological age. The relevance of social age is likely due to social interactions and peer-group influences exerted by individuals who are in the same school cohort but are not necessarily of the same age.
主题	World Population (POP)
URL	http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/7175/
来源智库	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/128397
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Skirbekk V,Kohler H-P,Prskawetz A. Birth month, school graduation, and the timing of births and marriages.. 2004.