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Annika Elwert
Biträdande universitetslektor
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Fertility patterns and sex composition preferences in immigrant–native unions in Sweden
Författare
Summary, in English
Intermarriage between immigrants and native individuals highlights the need to study childbearing as a joint decision of couples, because fertility preferences are likely to differ for the two partners involved. This study focuses on Sweden, where the majority population holds a relative preference for daughters but many immigrants come from countries with son preferences. Using longitudinal registers for the period 1990–2009, I analyse third-birth risks according to the sex composition of previous children and type of union. Doing so allows the study of preferences from behavioural data: couples with a daughter preference, for example, are more likely to have another child if their two previous children were boys. Results show that third-birth risks tend to be higher in unions between Swedish women and immigrant men, whereas unions between Swedish men and immigrant women tend to exhibit lower third-birth risks. Son preferences are rarely realized in intermarriages.
Avdelning/ar
- Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen
- Sociologiska institutionen
- Ekonomisk demografi
Publiceringsår
2023
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Population Studies
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Routledge
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- exogamy
- fertility preferences
- immigrant fertility
- immigrants
- intermarriage
- reproductive behaviour
- sex composition preferences
- Sweden
Aktiv
Inpress
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0032-4728