High Fertility in City Suburbs: Compositional or Contextual Effects?

Kulu, Hill; Boyle, Paul J.

doi:10.1007/s10680-008-9163-9

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“…However, the effect of selective residential moves on suburban fertility may not be as large as we think. Our recent study using longitudinal data from Finland shows that couples who moved from urban centres to surrounding suburbs indeed had elevated fertility levels after moving, thus supporting the idea of selective residential moves (Kulu and Boyle 2009). Interestingly, however, fertility levels in the suburbs were not much influenced by selective moves as the 'migrant' couples only formed a small share of the total suburban population in the Finnish context; more people had grown up in the suburbs or had moved there before they formed a union.…”

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confidence: 63%

High Suburban Fertility: Evidence from Four Northern European Countries

Kulu¹,

Boyle²,

Andersson³

2009

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While numerous studies have compared urban and rural fertility rates across Europe, virtually no studies have distinguished suburbs as a distinct residential context. This study examines fertility variation across different residential contexts in four Northern European countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We move beyond the conventional urban-rural focus of most previous studies of within-nation variations in fertility by distinguishing between urban centres and suburbs of cities and towns. We base our study on aggregate and individual-level register data and our analysis shows that fertility levels are significantly higher in suburbs than in urban centres; this pattern has persisted over the past quarter of a century for all four countries. A parity-specific analysis of Swedish register data reveals that total fertility varies between central cities and suburbs due to the relatively high first-and second-birth propensities in the suburbs. Further analysis shows that fertility variation between the central cities and suburbs persists after controlling for women's socio-economic characteristics. We discuss the role of various factors in accounting for high suburban fertility including omitted individual characteristics, contextual factors and selective residential moves of couples planning to have a child, suggesting that more study is required of this underresearched topic.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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High Suburban Fertility: Evidence from Four Northern European Countries

Kulu¹,

Boyle²,

Andersson³

2009

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“…This shift in the timing of home ownership and moving into a single-family home need not surprise us: the time between partnership formation and parenthood has increased on average, dual earnership has become common particularly among couples without children, and in these birth cohorts home ownership increased along with increasing prosperity. The move into owner-occupation (Mulder and Wagner 2001) or into a single-family home ) is frequently followed quickly by the birth of a child, and fertility is higher in less urban than urban environments (Kulu and Boyle 2009;Kulu, Vikat, and Andersson 2007). These findings suggest that many couples move to better housing in anticipation of having children (see also Kulu 2008;Michielin and Mulder 2008); more generally, many couples who have a child move around childbirth (Clark and Davies Withers 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

Family dynamics and housing

Mulder¹

2013

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“…Significant differences in union dissolution by place of residence would need more attention in the field of divorce studies (cf. Kulu and Boyle 2009). …”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%