Fifth Meeting of the European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce, 17-18^th September 2007

Last update October 5, 2007.

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17 September 2007

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee and Registration

10:45 Welcome

11:00 – 12:30 Country-Specific Studies of Divorce Risks

Frequency of conflict, conflict behaviour and relationship stability

Presenter: Michael Wagner & Bernd Weiss

Educational differences in the assessment of the relationship quality and divorce risk in Estonia

Presenter: Kadri Aas

The intergenerational transmission of divorce depends on age at parental divorce. Evidence from an analysis of Norwegian register data

Presenter: Torkild Hovde Lyngstad,

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Consequences of Divorce

Family structures of divorcees: Spain 1991 and 2001.

Presenter: Montse Solsona,

Family disruption and children’s educational outcomes

Presenter: Wendy Sigle-Rushton

Parental divorce and spouse selection

Presenter: Jani Erola,

Parental Divorce and Sibling Relationships

Presenter: Anne-Rigt Poortman

16:00 – 16:15 Tea Break

16:15 – 17:15 A Focus on France

Dissolution of second and higher order unions in France

Presenter: Eva Beaujouan

Why is it women who file for divorce? An empirical test of several rational-choice explanations on French data from the 1980s

Presenter: Jean-François Mignot

18 September 2007

10:30 am Welcome and Coffee

10:45 – 11:45 Cohabitation

The case of unmarried cohabitation in Western and Eastern Europe

Presenter: Kairi Kasearu

The association between premarital cohabitation and marriage breakdown: continuity and change in Australia 1945 – 1995

Presenter: Belinda Hewitt

11:45 – 12:00 Break

12:00 – 13:30 Special GeNet session with an emphasis on gender

Panacea or pitfall? Women’s part-time employment and marital stability in West Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States

Presenters: Lynn Prince Cooke & Vanessa Gash

Coping strategies after divorce: a comparative perspective

Presenter: Dimitri Mortelmans

Marital status and inequality of earnings within the household

Presenter: Debora Price

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:30 Special session on intra- or inter-national comparative studies

Cross-regional divorce risks in Belgium

Presenter: Jaap Dronkers

Father involvement after union dissolution in the United Kingdom and United States

Presenter: Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott

Marital disruption and economic well-being: A comparative analysis

Presenter: Letizia Mencarini

Family disruption and support in later life: A comparative study between the United Kingdom and Italy

Presenter: Karen Glaser & Cecilia Tomassini

16:30 – 17:00 Final Discussion and Close

17:00 – 19:00 GENET Sponsored reception