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Intentions to become a parent after societal transition in Hungary

Andres Vikat, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Zsolt Speder, Demographic Research Institute, Budapest

We study intentions to become a parent considering simultaneously many prominent theoretical strands used in explaining the 1990s fertility decline in Central and Eastern Europe: uncertainties related to the societal transition; increase in absolute and relative economic deprivation; changing direct and indirect costs of children (New Home Economics); change towards more individualistic and less child-oriented values, post-materialism (Second Demographic Transition); basic lifestyle preferences towards work or family life (preference theory). We consider the gender aspect throughout our analysis. We use data from the first wave (2001) of the Hungarian panel survey ‘Turning Points in the Life Course’ (Hungarian GGS) on 18-49 year-old men and 18-44 year-old women, of whom 1561 men and 1198 women were childless at survey. We analyze the parenthood intention using logistic regression.

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Presented in Session 52: The correlates of low fertility