Intergenerational persistence of early family formation trajectories among teenage- mothers and fathers in Sweden
Kalucza, Sara (Umeå University)
Vidal, Sergi (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics)
Nilsson, Karina (Umeå University)

Date:	2021
Abstract:	In this paper, we address the questions of whether early family trajectories of parents are refected in childbearing teenagers, and how socio-economic and family background factors impact these intergenerational correlations. We use within-dyad sequence analysis to examine combined marital and childbearing trajectories, up to age 30, of two generations of a representative sample of childbearing teenagers born between 1975 and 1985 and their progenitors, drawn from the Swedish population register data. We fnd evidence for within-family persistence of early family trajectories, with better matches across family state sequences for dyads composed of childbearing teenagers and their parents, than for dyads composed of childbearing teenagers and parents of random birth cohort peers. Regression analysis shows that these intergenerational associations are stronger and occur among later-born siblings from non-traditional family backgrounds, and among families with lower socio-economic backgrounds. This study flls gaps in the knowledge of intergenerational family life course dynamics beyond the early parenthood event.
Note:	Open access funding provided by Umea University. The Umeå SIMSAM Lab data infrastructure used in this study was developed with support from the Swedish Research Council and by strategic funds from Umeå University.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Teenage parenthood ; Adolescent fertility ; Intergenerational transmission ; Sequence analysis ; Sweden
Published in:	Journal of Population Research, (June 2021) , ISSN 1835-9469

DOI: 10.1007/s12546-021-09265-1

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