Martin Kolk, Author at N-IUSSP

Families and households

Same-sex marriages in Sweden: 20 years of change

March 11, 2021March 16, 2020 Martin Kolk and Gunnar Andersson

Children, Divorces, Europe, Family, Gender issues, homosexual marriage, Marriage

Martin Kolk and Gunnar Andersson study the evolution of same-sex marriages, childbearing and divorce in Sweden. They highlight increases in childbearing and marriage of female couples in particular, and a … Read more

Gender issues

Gender equality and fertility: is there a connection?

March 10, 2021April 1, 2019 Martin Kolk

Europe, Fertility, gender equality, Gender issues

In the last decades, researchers have suggested that gender equality may have a positive effect on fertility in high-income countries. While this conjecture appears to be true cross-sectionally, it does … Read more