Marika JalovaaraSenior Research Fellow, NEFER PI, INVEST Flagship Co-PI. Sociology Unit, Department of Social Research, University of Turku, Finland • Personal webpage
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Senior Research Fellow, NEFER PI, INVEST Flagship Co-PI. Sociology Unit, Department of Social Research, University of Turku, Finland • Personal webpage • marika.jalovaara(at)utu.fi
Breaking down the increase in non-marital births in Finland
Une décomposition de l’augmentation des naissances hors mariage en Finlande
Christine Schnor, Marika Jalovaara
Low-educated persons are especially likely to have their children outside marriage in Finland. While the proportion of people with low education has declined sharply in most countries in recent decades, non-marital childbearing has increased. How can this paradox be explained?
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Socioeconomic disparities in Finnish children’s family life
Disparités socioéconomiques dans la vie familiale des enfants finlandais
Marika Jalovaara, Gunnar Andersson
Increasing attention is directed towards the ‘diverging destinies’ of children born in different family contexts. One might expect disparities to be small in Nordic welfare states, yet in Finland, as shown here by Marika Jalovaara and Gunnar Andersson,
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Persistence and reversals in Nordic fertility
Fécondité des pays nordiques : certaines tendances persistent, d’autres se renversent
Marika Jalovaara, Gerda Neyer, Gunnar Andersson
Many studies find that highly educated women have few children and high level of childlessness, but as Marika Jalovaara and colleagues show, the patterns in the Nordic countries have changed remarkably:
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