Assistante
Sujet de thèse: pathways to remain partner- and childless: the role of socioeconomic and family of origin's characteristics
Supervisor: Christine Schnor (UCLouvain)
In recent decades, lifelong singlehood and childlessness have increased across many European countries. Family formations have become a more extended sequence of demographic events as a result of demographic behavior changes such as the postponement of marriage and motherhood, and the increasing popularity of unmarried cohabitation and union dissolution. The rise of childlessness rates has fueled interest in this phenomenon and the reasons for it. While existing research has explored complexities in the life-course of childless people, few studies have examined (biological) childless’ partnership biographies, how it is linked to contemporary union dynamics, and how it differs between countries. On the one hand, this project aims to capture the heterogeneity of partnership trajectories leading to childlessness. Using sequence and cluster analyses, this research considers how the joint occurrence, timing, and duration of multiple states in a union trajectory are associated with childlessness. On the other hand, as remaining never partnered is a strong determinant of childlessness, we focus on life trajectories of individuals that have never been in a coresidential partnership and explore their specific characteristics, with an emphasis on the family of origin’s characteristics. Based on the observed residential and income patterns, socioeconomic status, and the family of origin’s characteristics, we develop a typology of partnerless trajectories that led to childlessness, emphasizing the importance of understanding this specific population as a heterogeneous group. From a cross-country comparison, we study Finland and Belgium to explore the nature of childlessness and the social settings: how similar are childless adults in different countries? Analyses are based on high-quality (administrative) data covering the complete registered populations. Shedding light on the diversity of partnership trajectories, the present research contributes to the existing literature by studying lifetime childlessness as a complex process outcome rather than a distinct cross-sectional state.
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Bourguignon, Mélanie ; Damiens, Joan Jany ; Doignon, Yoann ; Eggerickx, Thierry ; Fontaine, Scott ; Plavsic, Audrey ; Rees, Alice ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Sanderson, Jean-Paul ; Schlüter, Benjamin-Samuel. Un an après. Analyse de la variation sociodémographique de la surmortalité de 2020 liée à la Covid-19 en Belgique (2022-11-16). In: Cahiers québécois de démographie, Vol. , no., p. 1-38 (2022).
Eggerickx, Thierry ; Sanderson, Jean-Paul ; Bourguignon, Mélanie ; Doignon, Yoann ; Damiens, Joan Jany ; Fontaine, Scott ; Masquelier, Bruno ; Plavsic, Audrey ; Rees, Alice ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Schlüter, Benjamin-Samuel. Inégalités sociales de mortalité et place des ainés dans la société. Webinaires sur la pandémie de la Covid 19 de l'AIDELF (online, du 19/05/2021 au 21/05/2021).
Bourguignon, Mélanie ; Damiens, Joan Jany ; Doignon, Yoann ; Eggerickx, Thierry ; Fontaine, Scott ; Masquelier, Bruno ; Plavsic, Audrey ; Rees, Alice ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Sanderson, Jean-Paul ; Schlüter, Benjamin-Samuel. Les variations spatiales de la mortalité due à la Covid-19. Webinaires de l'AIDELF sur la pandémie de la Covid-19, "L’apport des démographes à la compréhension de la pandémie" (En ligne, du 19/05/2021 au 21/05/2021).
Schnor, Christine ; Damiens, Joan Jany ; Fadel, Luisa ; Rees, Alice ; Zilincikova, Zuzana. Family structure and proximity to kin during childhood (Démographie et Sociétés; 32), 2022. 16 p.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Rees, Alice ; Decoster, Charline. Belgian family policy from a comparative perspective: What works and what is missing, 2021.
Bourguignon, Mélanie ; Damiens, Joan Jany ; Doignon, Yoann ; Eggerickx, Thierry ; Fontaine, Scott ; Lusyne, Patrick ; Plavsic, Audrey ; Rees, Alice ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Sanderson, Jean-Paul ; Schlüter, Benjamin-Samuel. Variations spatiales et sociodémographiques de mortalité de 2020-2021 en Belgique. L’effet de la pandémie Covid-19 (Démographie et sociétés; 27), 2021. 39 p.
