Social Policy and Fertility Change in the Nordic Countries
The Nordic countries are renowned for their systems of social and gender equality, as well as their relatively high fertility. Some of these patterns may be set to change. In a set of comparative analyses, we have demonstrated how cohort fertility and levels of ultimate childlessness have remained relatively stable over recent cohorts of Nordic women and men. However, behind these aggregate patterns of stability, we find both a newly emerging gender similarity and persistent (among men) and new (among women) educational disparities in childbearing outcomes. Further, the 2010s have seen declines in period fertility, which seem to have accelerated during the very last years of the decade. Current research demonstrates an increasing similarity in fertility reactions across the five Nordic countries, with lower parities contributing more strongly to fertility declines. To a large extent, however, the ongoing declines are still a conundrum that motivates new research based on new types of data.
Date: 10 February 2020, 12:45 (Monday, 4th week, Hilary 2020)
Venue: 42-43 Park End Street, 42-43 Park End Street OX1 1JD
Venue Details: Entrance on Tidmarsh Lane
Speaker: Gunnar Andersson (University of Stockholm)
Organising department: Department of Sociology
Organisers: Dr Zachary van Winkle (University of Oxford), Dr Patrick Präg (University of Oxford)
Part of: Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars
Booking required?: Not required
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Natasha Cotton