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Martin Bergvall. Foto.

Martin Bergvall

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Martin Bergvall. Foto.

Divorce in the family: transmission of divorce across three generations

Författare

  • Martin Bergvall

Summary, in English

It is well-documented that there is an intergenerational transmission of divorce from parents to their children. This paper investigates how this transmission is affected by grandparents’ divorce. Using individual-level longitudinal data on marriages and divorces in Sweden, 1905–2015, I show grandparents’ divorce matters for their grandchildren’s divorce risks, even when parents remain married. Moreover, there is a stronger transmission for women but not for men when both parents and grandparents were divorced, and sibling comparisons indicate women are more likely than their brothers to replicate their parents’ marriage. These findings are the first to show that the explanations need to account for more than the parental generation to fully understand the intergenerational transmission of divorce.

Avdelning/ar

  • Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen
  • Centrum för ekonomisk demografi

Publiceringsår

2022-04-07

Språk

Engelska

Dokumenttyp

Konferens - annat

Ämne

  • Economic History

Conference name

Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2022

Conference date

2022-04-06 - 2022-04-09

Conference place

Atlanta, United States

Aktiv

Unpublished

Projekt

  • Doctoral Studies: The Divorce Transition in Sweden 1915–2015
  • A century of divorce. Economic change and union dissolution in Sweden, 1915–2015