The Role of Fertility in the Demography of Grandparenthood: Evidence from Italy
The Role of Fertility in the Demography of Grandparenthood: Evidence from Italy
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生育率在祖父母人口统计学中的作用：来自意大利的证据
作者：
Giorgio Di Gessa;V. Bordone;B. Arpino
祖父母在家庭生活中发挥着重要作用。然而，人们对祖父母的人口统计知之甚少。鉴于生育率最近发生的巨大变化，我们探讨了孩子数量和第一胎年龄在向祖父母过渡的时间中的作用，重点关注意大利这个南北生育率差异众所周知的国家。我们使用 2009 年意大利“家庭和社会关系”调查 (N = 10,186) 的数据来估计三个出生队列的父母 (1920–29; 1930–39; 1940–49) 的祖父母年龄中位数。调查结果显示，女性的祖父母年龄总体推迟了 5 岁，从 50 岁出头转变为 50 岁中后期（分别在南方和北方）。这种推迟很大程度上是由家庭构成的变化驱动的：尽管三个或更多孩子的母亲的祖父母年龄在队列中没有太大变化，但具有这种特征的母亲的比例显着下降。经历向祖父母过渡的异质性对代际转移和以后生活中的其他角色具有影响。
Grandparents play an important role in their family’s lives. However, little is known about the demography of grandparenthood. Given dramatic recent changes in fertility, we explore the role of number of children and age at first birth in the timing of the transition into grandparenthood focusing on Italy, a country with well-known North-South fertility differentials. We used data from the 2009 Italian Survey ‘Family and Social Relations’ (N = 10,186) to estimate median ages of grandparenthood across three birth cohorts of parents (1920–29; 1930–39; 1940–49). Findings show an overall postponement of age of grandparenthood of 5 years, shifting for women from early to mid- or late-50s (in the South and North, respectively). Such postponement is largely driven by family compositional changes: although the age of grandparenthood among mothers of three or more children has not changed much over cohorts, the percentage of mothers with such characteristic decreased significantly. The heterogeneity in experiencing the transition to grandparenthood has implications for intergenerational transfers and other roles in later life.
影响因子：
5.3
作者：
S. Chatterji;J. Byles;D. Cutler;T. Seeman;E. Verdes
通讯作者：
S. Chatterji;J. Byles;D. Cutler;T. Seeman;E. Verdes
今天的祖父母：人口统计概况。
DOI：
10.1093/geront/38.1.37
发表时间：
1998
期刊：
The Gerontologist
影响因子：
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作者：
Szinovacz,ME
通讯作者：
Szinovacz,ME