Sex Differences in Childlessness in Norway: Identification of Underlying Demographic Drivers.

ABSTRACT: In Norway, as in many other rich countries, childlessness is more common among men than women and has also increased more among men. Over the last 15 years, the gap in childlessness between 45-year-old women and men has widened from 5.8 to 10.2 percentage points, according to national register data. In the Norwegian-born subgroup, the gap has increased by 2.4 percentage points, from 5.8 to 8.2. The goal of the study was to identify the demographic drivers of this development, using a quite simple, but original, decomposition approach. The components reflect changes in relative cohort sizes, whether the child has one native and one immigrant parent, whether the father was older than 45, and whether one of the parents already had a child, no longer lived in Norway at age 45, or was unidentif

SUBMITTER: Kravdal O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8575743 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature