To better understand how the differences by SES developed during the transition from high to low rates of childbearing, Martin Dribe (Lund University) and Francesco Scalone (University of Bologna) analysed large-scale micro-level population data from the IPUMS archive.

Eleonora Mussino (Stockholm University Demography Unit), Giuseppe Gabrielli (University of Naples Federico II), Livia Elisa Ortensi (University of Bologna) and Salvatore Strozza (University of Naples Federico II) inquire directly into the short-term fertility intentions of migrants compared to natives in Italy. They also ask whether demographic and socio-economic factors play different roles in the two groups.

In a new study, Alice Goisis and Maria Palma (Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Social Research Institute, UCL) looked at parent-child relationships of individuals around the age of 14 in the UK by exploring data from the Millennium Cohort Study and analysed relationships with both mothers and fathers. Their results suggest that differences between the MAR and NC families in terms of closeness and frequency of quarrelling are small, and generally not statistically significant. However, they did find statistically significant differences on the specific indicator of closeness.