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We examine how economic circumstances are related to fertility intentions in childless young men and women in East and West Germany. We explore multiple dimensions of fertility intentions: short-term intentions for the next two years, long-term expectations about family size, and uncertainty about these short- and long-term intentions.
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Economic circumstances constrain fertility intentions and increase uncertainty. Although fertility intentions differ between men and women and by region, the broad mechanisms that predict intentions are very similar across groups for long-term intentions and uncertainty.
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Intentions about when and whether to have children may be a bell-weather that indicate young people's uncertainty about their (economic) future
Claudia Geist
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This page is a summary of: Constrained Intentions, Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, January 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2378023116685334.
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