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The differential influence of women´s residential district on the risk of entering first marriage and motherhood in Western Germany

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  • Karsten Hank

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This article investigates the role of women´s residential district in the process of family formation in western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. Our analysis of the transition to first marriage and motherhood is based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), which we merge with a rich set of district-level data. The estimated multilevel discrete-time logit models suggest that (1) basically all regional heterogeneity in women´s entry into parenthood is due to differences in the respondents´ marital status, while there is (2) a constant and significant regional variation in women´s first marriage probabilities, which cannot be explained by population composition or structural contextual effects. Thus, regional influences on fertility behavior do not have an autonomous quality, but are merely mediated through a latent contextual effect on women´s risk of entering first marriage, which we attribute to regional socio-cultural milieus.

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  • Karsten Hank, 2002. "The differential influence of women´s residential district on the risk of entering first marriage and motherhood in Western Germany," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2002-027, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:dem:wpaper:wp-2002-027
    DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2002-027
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    1. Karsten Hank & Michaela Kreyenfeld, 2002. "A Multilevel Analysis of Child Care and the Transition to Motherhood in Western Germany," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 290, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
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    3. Karsten Hank, 2002. "The geographic context of male nuptiality in western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 7(15), pages 523-536.

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    Germany/FRG; family formation; geography;
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    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
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