Empirical Essays on Socio-Economic Barriers to Family Formation
PhD defence by Simone Norlund Vering Johansen.
During recent decades, family formation trends in the Western world have undergone major changes. Research suggests that these changes have not affected all social groups equally. This dissertation examines how socio-economic inequality is intricately intertwined with family formation processes in Denmark, through three empirical chapters on marriage and medically assisted reproduction.
By employing a range of different methodological approaches from the demographic and econometric toolboxes and applying them to Danish register data, the thesis examines: i) who drove the marriage rate decline in the wake of the Great Recession, ii) how public funding shapes the use of fertility treatments, focusing on socio-economic differences, and iii) long-term socio-economic gradients across different stages of the fertility treatment process.
Assessment committee
- Associate Professor Carsten Strøby Jensen, University of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen (chairperson)
- Professor Alice Goisis, UCL
- Full Professor Marika Jalovaara, University of Turku
Supervisor
- Professor Kristian Bernt Karlson, Department of Sociology
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