Settlement size and fertility in the Nordic countries

Hill Kulu, Andres Vikat and Gunnar Andersson
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Hill Kulu: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Andres Vikat: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Gunnar Andersson: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

No WP-2006-024, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Abstract: There is a growing body of literature that looks at the causes of below-replacement fertility in developed countries. While the variation in childbearing patterns across countries and between socio-economic groups within a country has been studied in detail, little is known about the differences in fertility patterns across settlements within a country. A few recent studies suggest that there are persistent differentials between high- and low-fertility settlements in contemporary Europe. This study examines fertility variation across settlements in four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We base our study on aggregate and individual-level register data. We first examine annual total and parity-specific fertility across settlement type from the mid-1970s to the early twenty-first century. We proceed to study the relative contribution of the socio-economic characteristics of the local populations and the characteristics of the settlements to this variation, using hazard regression models.

Keywords: Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden; event history analysis; fertility; urbanization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2006-024

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