A new perspective on the generational structures of families – Generational placements over the life course

Hünteler, Bettina

doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100450

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“…Thus, a novel insight from our study was that the East-West inequalities in older kin counts were fairly stable by cohort, but changed across cohorts, owing to the fluctuating East German period fertility described above. The models are also not affected by known downsides to surveys such as sample attrition, recall bias, and selective mortality.The correspondence between our model-based results and the survey-based results fromHünteler (2022) andLeopold and Skopek (2015a) demonstrate the reliability of the formal matrix approach for the estimation of kin availability. This conclusion is further strengthened when comparing the kinship universe in 2017 built from Swedish register data and past censuses(Kolk et al 2023) with model-based estimates built up from a 1968-2017 time series of age-specific fertility and mortality data from the HMD and HFD (Alburez-Gutierrez et al2023).…”

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“…Our results align with findings from survey data. Hünteler (2022) found that the life-course family structure in Germanyaccounting for parental death and parent-and grandparenthood of individuals born between 1939 and 1953differed clearly across cohorts. Notably, she showed that later family-transitions and increased generational overlap became more prevalent across cohorts.…”

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“…First, our formal matrix approach only considers the experience of an average East or West German individual and is not able to account for population-level heterogeneity in mortality or fertility outcomes. In addition to the aforementioned differences in the prevalence of childlessness, there is enormous variation in the kinship size and structure across families (see alsoHünteler 2022). For example, the age at which one becomes a grandparent for the first time has an interquartile range of around 10 to 15 years in Europe(Leopold and Skopek 2015b).…”

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Changing Kinship Structures in East and West Germany Before and After Reunification

Hünteler,

Polizzi,

van Raalte

2024

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Kinship networks are one of the primary structures of human life. Members of the kin network play a crucial role as potential supporters and receivers of support and constitute a person’s kinship reservoir. Little is known about how past fertility and mortality differences in divided Germany have shaped inequalities in kinship reservoirs between the poorer and more rapidly aging eastern versus the richer western parts of the country. This paper explores differences in kinship structure (number and kind of kin) between East and West Germans before and after reunification. We use age-specific fertility and mortality data (1956–2017) as inputs into analytic kinship models. The output is a full accounting of the expected number of family members, including grandparents, parents, children, grandchildren, aunts and uncles, cousins, and nieces and nephews, for focal individuals of various ages over time. Despite large differences in period fertility, mortality, and generational length, we find surprisingly few differences in kin counts between East and West Germany, though East Germans in general tend to have larger numbers of kin of all types primarily due to their shorter generational lengths. The dominant trend in both populations is a movement from horizontally dominated to vertically dominated kinship networks.

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Changing Kinship Structures in East and West Germany Before and After Reunification

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Polizzi,

van Raalte

2024

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“…2008). Dalam esai foto ini, saya mengajukan argumen tentang, bagaimana pembagian generasi dengan usia dan jarak kelahiran yang merentang jauh, mampu menghadirkan pembedaan secara vertikal dalam hal perspektif relasi intergenerasi dalam keluarga (Hünteler 2022). Pembedaan perspektif secara vertikal, dalam serial foto pada artikel ini, saya angkat dengan penggunaan handphone (HP) sebagai objek material di dalamnya.…”

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Mamak dan Anak Cucunya : Antara Alpha, Z, dan Baby Boomers

Puspita Nindya Sari

2023

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“…In the first step, typical life-course family trajectories, so-called generational placement trajectories (Hünteler 2022), are identified using sequence and cluster analysis. They combine information about whether, when, and in which order parental death and the transitions into (parent-and) grandparenthood occurred.…”

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Intergenerational Family Life Courses and Wealth Accumulation in Norway

Hünteler¹,

Nutz²,

Wörn³

2023

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Prior research has widely acknowledged the consequences of specific family transitions (e.g., death of a parent) for individual wealth holdings. However, individual’s wealth accumulation is a non-linear long-term process that is subject to multiple family transitions occurring at different life stages and in various orderings. They might mutually shape wealth accumulation both in the shorter and longer run. We combine sequence, cluster, and regression analyses to describe how the accumulation of wealth between ages 40 and 64 differs by typical patterns of family life courses using Norwegian register data of individuals born in 1953 (N = 47,945). We consider the death of the parent generation and the transition into grandparenthood as the main events in this age group, while additionally distinguishing by parenthood. Individuals with a later transition into (grand)parenthood occupied stable and high wealth positions over time. Individuals without children exhibited a steady increase in their relative wealth. Additionally, experiencing parental death later in life was associated with increasing wealth, whereas early parental death was not. These results held net of potential selection by gender and highest education. Pronounced and even increasing wealth differences over the life course seem to be associated with the interplay of multiple family transitions.

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A new perspective on the generational structures of families – Generational placements over the life course

Cited by 9 publications

References 52 publications

Changing Kinship Structures in East and West Germany Before and After Reunification

Changing Kinship Structures in East and West Germany Before and After Reunification

Mamak dan Anak Cucunya : Antara Alpha, Z, dan Baby Boomers

Intergenerational Family Life Courses and Wealth Accumulation in Norway

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