Table Of ContentGenders in the Life Course
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Genders in the Life
Course
Demographic Issues
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Antonella Pinnelli
Department of Demography, University “La Sapienza”
Rome, Italy
Filomena Racioppi
Department of Demography, University “La Sapienza”
Rome, Italy
Rosella Rettaroli
Department of Statistics, University of Bologna, Italy
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CONTENTS
List of contributors................................................. vii
List of figures...................................................... ix
List of tables....................................................... xi
Acknowledgement.................................................. xv
Preface............................................................ xvii
Introduction........................................................ 1
1. The gender system in developed countries: macro and micro
evidence..................................................... 25
Paola Di Giulio and Antonella Pinnelli
2. Age at first sexual intercourse................................... 51
Lucia Coppola
3. The formation of the first partnership: the role of education
and employment............................................. 71
Roberto Impicciatore and Rosella Rettaroli
4. Ideational factors and choices of life as a couple.................. 95
Lucia Pasquini and Alessandra Samoggia
5. Gender and the differential fertility............................... 113
Antonella Pinnelli and Paola Di Giulio
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6. The new role of the father....................................... 135
Paola Di Giulio and Simona Carrozza
7. Gender and first union dissolution............................... 167
Alessandra De Rose and Mariachiara Di Cesare
8. Women and men after the first union dissolution.................. 185
Aurora Angeli and Alessandra De Rose
9. Gender and migration: two case studies.......................... 205
Patrizia Farina and Laura Terzera
10. Gender and support of older unmarried people in Italy and Britain.. 237
Cecilia Tomassini and Karen Glaser
11. Male excess mortality between biology and culture................ 249
Annunziata Nobile
Appendix Gender studies in demography: data, methods and lines
of research........................................... 283
Antonella Pinnelli, Alberto Cazzola, Alessandra De Rose,
Paola Di Giulio, Patrizia Farina, Cristina Freguja, Filomena
Racioppi and Cecilia Tomassini
References......................................................... 313
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Angeli Aurora, University of Bologna, Italy
Carrozza Simona, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Cazzola Alberto, University of Bologna, Italy
Coppola Lucia, Istat – National institute of statistics, Rome, Italy
De Rose Alessandra, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Di Cesare Mariachiara, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Di Giulio Paola, Max Plank Institute for Demographic Research,
Rostock, Germany
Farina Patrizia, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Freguja Cristina, Istat – National institute of statistics, Rome, Italy
Glaser Karen, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
Impicciatore Roberto, University of Milan-Statale, Italy
Nobile Annunziata, University of Rome 3, Italy
Pasquini Lucia, University of Bologna, Italy
Pinnelli Antonella, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Racioppi Filomena, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Rettaroli Rosella, University of Bologna, Italy
Samoggia Alessandra, University of Bologna, Italy
Terzera Laura, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Tomassini Cecilia, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1.1 PCA on indicators of gender system (variables
and countries), 29 countries 34
Figure 1.2 PCA on data concerning Time Use, (variables
and countries), 15 countries 37
Figure 1.3 Proportion of partners sharing the preparation of meals,
cleaning duties, shopping for goods, and the management
of family budget, by country 41
Figure 1.4 Results of multiway analysis (Statis) years 1970, 80,
90, 98 or the most recent 46
Figure 11.1 Age-specific excess male mortality and contributions of
age groups to the differences in life expectancy at 15
between the sexes in 1960, 1980 and the end of 90’s in
Sweden, Spain and Hungary 265
Figure11.2 Changesinmaleandfemaleage-specificdeathratesfrom
period 1 to period 2 and from period 2 to period 3 in
Sweden, Spain and Hungary 267
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 Structure of Fertility and Family Surveys (FFS) project 7
Table 2 Contexts considered in the chapters 8
Table 3 Statistical methods used within the volume 10
Table 2.1 Median age at the first sexual intercourse, and percentage
of the first sexual intercourse before the 16th, the 18th and
the 20th birthday, by country, gender and cohort 60
Table 2.2 Parameter estimates of the hazard models at discrete time
by country: women 63
Table 2.3 Parameter estimates of the hazard models at discrete time
by country: men 65
Table 3.1 Respondents and number of first unions, by country and
gender 75
Table 3.2 Proportions of first unions according to typology of union
(marriage, consensual union followed or not by a
marriage) and percentages of singles never in union at the
time of the survey, by country and gender 77
Table 3.3 Proportions of respondents who experienced the first
union before 25 years of age, by cohort and gender 78
Table 3.4 Median ages for some specific events related to the
transition into adulthood, by gender 79
Table3.5 Statisticalsignificanceofthedifferencesbetweenmenand
women survival curves for some specific events related to
the transition into adulthood 80
Table 3.6 Covariates included in the multivariate models 81
Table 3.7 First marriage and first consensual union. Coefficient
estimates and relative risks by country and gender.
Exponential piecewise constant model with competitive
risks (marriage vs consensual union) 83
Table 4.1 Meaning and variability explained by the first three axes
in the selected countries 98
Table 4.2 Results of logistic regression. Switzerland, Italy and Spain 102
Table 4.3 Results of logistic regression. Slovenia, Hungary 107
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