Fertility Intentions and Their Realization in Couples : How the Division of Household Chores Matters

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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0192513X19848794" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0192513X19848794</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513X19848794" target="_blank" >10.1177/0192513X19848794</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Fertility Intentions and Their Realization in Couples : How the Division of Household Chores Matters
Original language description
Most research on Europe indicates that a gender-balanced division of family work tends to increase childbearing probabilities, but empirical results vary substantially. The present article proposes explanations for this observed discrepancy. It develops prior research further by (1) studying short-term fertility intentions and their realization within the subsequent 4 years, (2) analyzing the role of the spouses’ satisfaction with the division for the effects that the division may have on childbearing, (3) proving a mediation by relationship satisfaction, and (4) considering gender as well as parity as moderators. Using data from two waves of the Generations and Gender Survey, we show that the division of work affects childbearing intentions. We find that the effect (a) depends on the spouses’ satisfaction with the division, (b) is partly moderated by relationship satisfaction, and (c) varies by parity. The division of household labor, however, seems of less importance for the realization of childbearing intentions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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