Partnering behavior is central to understanding fertility. Influential concepts, including singlehood, serial monogamy, and multiple‐partner fertility, are frequently used to analyze partnering and childbearing dynamics. These concepts are evoked to understand individual and population‐level patterns but are mainly analyzed at the individual level. We propose a measure for gauging the interplay between partnerships and childbearing at the population level, namely cohort fertility rates (CFR) as the sum of births under various partnership contexts. Surprisingly, demographers rarely measure and do not have a clear picture of the extent to which childbearing in different partnership contexts contributes to completed fertility. We analyze Finnish register data to decompose CFR into births across union status, union order, and reproductive partner order. Contrary to the discourse of partnering in the Nordics, births within first unions to first reproductive partners account for about two‐thirds of CFR. Births in higher‐order unions to first reproductive partners account for one‐fifth. Single births and births with higher‐order reproductive partners have a modest impact. This ranking holds across sex and educational level. We argue that the proposed measures offer a novel appraisal of population‐level implications of partnerships and childbearing dynamics and provide an opportunity to understand cross‐country variation in fertility patterns.
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{"title":"When Kids Are a Burden: Understanding the Normative Sources of Negative Perceptions of Parenthood","authors":"Sinn Won Han","doi":"10.1111/padr.12573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12573","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51372,"journal":{"name":"Population and Development Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44429213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rising Patriarchy and Declining Economic Opportunity: Life Courses and Social Change in Egypt between 1965 and 2018","authors":"Zafer Buyukkececi, A. Fasang, V. Kraus","doi":"10.1111/padr.12578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12578","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51372,"journal":{"name":"Population and Development Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47210274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migration and Skewed Subnational Sex Ratios among Young Adults","authors":"Michał Gulczyński","doi":"10.1111/padr.12577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12577","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51372,"journal":{"name":"Population and Development Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42335034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Early Bird Catches the Worm: The Effect of Birth Order on Old‐Age Mortality","authors":"H. Noghanibehambari, J. Fletcher","doi":"10.1111/padr.12575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12575","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51372,"journal":{"name":"Population and Development Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45173667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migration Policies and Immigrants’ Language Acquisition in EU‐15: Evidence from Twitter","authors":"Sofia Gil‐Clavel, A. Grow, M. Bijlsma","doi":"10.1111/padr.12574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12574","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51372,"journal":{"name":"Population and Development Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43865559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local Food Price Volatility and School Dropout in Sub‐Saharan Africa","authors":"Kathleen J. Brown, Roos Haer, Gudrun Østby","doi":"10.1111/padr.12567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12567","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51372,"journal":{"name":"Population and Development Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47019085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The US Council of Economic Advisers on Changing Female Labor Force Participation","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/padr.12562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12562","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51372,"journal":{"name":"Population and Development Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44347469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WHO Global and Regional Estimates of Infertility","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/padr.12563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12563","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51372,"journal":{"name":"Population and Development Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42908888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}