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Advances in Life Course Research | 2014

Fertility analysis from a life course perspective

Petra Buhr; Johannes Huinink

In the past decades, the life course approach has gained importance in studies on the timing and incidence of childbirth. It allows a complex analysis of fertility. Following this approach, family formation and parenthood are perceived as instrumental goals of individual welfare production over the life course. In addition, the analysis of fertility has to take into account three kinds of essential interdependence: time dependence of the life course, multilevel structure of the life course and multidimensionality of the life course. As a consequence future fertility research should emphasize more on pre-decisional individual dispositions and behavioral intentions, should take into account more seriously that fertility takes place in the context of interdependent social relationships and social groups, and address changes in the cultural and institutional environment. The aim of this special issue is to present a series of empirical studies touching upon some of these aspects and therefore substantially contributing to progress in contemporary longitudinal fertility research. The twelve contributions deal with childbearing intentions and outcomes in multidimensional life courses; dyadic decision-making and social influences on fertility; and the interdependence of spatial mobility, regional context, culture, and fertility.


Archive | 2008

Ausgrenzung, Entgrenzung, Aktivierung: Armut und Armutspolitik in Deutschland

Petra Buhr

Mit der Vorlage des ersten Armuts- und Reichtumsberichts im Jahre 2001 wurde die „Existenz von Armut, Unterversorgung und sozialer Ausgrenzung in einem wohlhabenden Land wie der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“ (Deutscher Bundestag 2001: 25) erstmals regierungsamtlich anerkannt. Der Bericht lieferte eine umfassende Analyse der sozialen Lage in Deutschland bis 1998 und kam zu dem Ergebnis, „dass soziale Ausgrenzung zugenommen und Verteilungsgerechtigkeit abgenommen hat“ (S. 10). Der zweite Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht, der 2005 vorgelegt wurde, konstatierte eine leichte Zunahme von (relativer) Einkommensarmut. Er geht insgesamt von einem breiten Armutskonzept aus, das auf Amartya Sen zuruckgeht: Danach ist Armut „gleichbedeutend mit einem Mangel an Verwirklichungschancen, Reichtum mit einem sehr hohen Mas an Verwirklichungschancen (...) und Armut lasst sich so auch als ‚Ausgrenzung von gesellschaftlich bedingten Chancen‘ interpretieren. Armut im Sirme sozialer Ausgrenzung und nicht mehr gewahrleisteter Teilhabe liegt dann vor, wenn die Handlungsspielraume von Personen in gravierender Weise eingeschrankt und gleichberechtigte Teilhabechancen an den Aktivitaten und Lebensbedingungen der Gesellschaft ausgeschlossen sind“ (Bundesregierung 2005: 9).


Demographic Research | 2018

The influence of the number of siblings on expected family size in a cohort of young adults in Germany

Petra Buhr; Katharina Lutz; Timo Peter

Background: Previous research has shown that fertility is influenced by the family of origin. However, there is only little evidence about intergenerational transmission of fertility expectations in younger birth cohorts. Objective: We investigate if there is a positive relationship between the number of full siblings and expected family size in a young birth cohort in Germany and whether this association can be explained by transmission of socioeconomic status. Methods: We use the fifth wave of the German Family Panel (birth cohort 1991–1993) and estimate multinomial logistic regression models. Results: We find a positive effect of the number of full siblings on expected family size that remains stable when controlling for the socioeconomic status of the parents. The effect is smaller on an expected family size of two children compared to other parities which is compatible with the prevailing two-child norm in Germany. Contrary to our expectations there is no effect of the number of siblings on being uncertain about having children. Conclusions: The family of origin influences fertility expectations in a cohort born in the 1990s in Germany, which cannot be explained by transmission of socioeconomic status. Although it is theoretically plausible, there is no final proof that the relationship is instead due to transmission of family values, as the number of siblings is only a proxy variable for the family values of the parents. Contribution: We verify the results of previous studies for a cohort born in the 1990s in Germany, account for parity differences, and include uncertainty in fertility expectations.


Archive | 2011

Armut im Kontext von Partnerschaft und Familie

Petra Buhr; Johannes Huinink

Die Lebensform von Individuen gehort zu den Determinanten sozialer Ungleichheit. So gehen verschiedene Phasen der Familienentwicklung und die Familienform in Abhangigkeit von den jeweiligen wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Rahmenbedingungen in einer Gesellschaft mit unterschiedlich hohen Risiken einher, materielle Armut oder andere Formen sozialer Deprivation zu erfahren. Umgekehrt hangen die Chancen dafur, eine bestimmte Lebensform zu realisieren, ebenfalls von gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen, aber auch von materiellen und nicht-materiellen Ressourcen der Individuen selbst ab.


Archive | 2017

The German Family Panel (pairfam)

Josef Brüderl; Karsten Hank; Johannes Huinink; Bernhard Nauck; Franz J. Neyer; Sabine Walper; Philipp Alt; Elisabeth Borschel; Petra Buhr; Laura Castiglioni; Stefan Fiedrich; Christine Finn; Madison Garrett; Michel Herzig; Kristin Hajek; Bernadette Huyer-May; Rüdiger Lenke; Bettina Müller; Timo Peter; Claudia Schmiedeberg; Philipp Schütze; Nina Schumann; Carolin Thönnissen; Martin Wetzel; Barbara Wilhelm


Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie | 2009

Innenansichten eines Wohlfahrtsmarkts

Frank Berner; Lutz Leisering; Petra Buhr


European Sociological Review | 2015

The German Low Fertility: How We Got There and What We Can Expect for the Future

Petra Buhr; Johannes Huinink


4/2004 | 2004

Armut und Armutsentwicklung in Deutschland Status Quo und mögliche Folgen der Reformpolitik

Petra Buhr


European Journal of Population-revue Europeenne De Demographie | 2017

Why Childless Men and Women Give Up on Having Children

Petra Buhr; Johannes Huinink


Duisburger Beiträge zur Soziologischen Forschung, 2016 | 2016

Biographical risks and their impact on uncertainty in fertility expectations - a gender-specific study based on the German Family Panel

Anne-Kristin Kuhnt; Petra Buhr

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Anne-Kristin Kuhnt

University of Duisburg-Essen

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Bernhard Nauck

Chemnitz University of Technology

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