Search for dissertations about: "Intergenerational influences"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words Intergenerational influences.

2. 1. Parents, Children and Childbearing

   Author : Johan Dahlberg; Juho Härkönen; Gunnar Andersson; Jennifer S. Barber; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Demography; Sociology; Fertility; Intergenerational transmission; Intergenerational influences; Social background; Parental death; Timing of first birth; Mode of delivery; Sibling correlation; Event history analysis; Childlessness; Sweden; sociologisk demografi; Sociological Demography;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis provides a set of studies of social influences on fertility timing. Swedish register data are used to link individuals to their parents and siblings, thereby allowing the study of impacts of family of origin, social background, and parental death on fertility. READ MORE

4. 2. Ancestral influences on health of grandchildren

   Author : Gunnar Kaati; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : The late effects in adulthood of nutrition during adolescence, childhood, infancy, and the fetal and embryonic stages of development have attracted much attention in research, but less so the time of development of the genome. The issue of fetal origins of adult disease has particularly attracted interest. READ MORE

5. 3. Essays on Dynamic Macroeconomics

   Author : Conny Olovsson; Mats Persson; Dirk Krueger; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Labor supply; home production; the equity premium puzzle; social security; intergenerational risk sharing; Business and economics; Ekonomi;

   Abstract : My thesis consists of three papers in macroeconomics.“Why do Europeans Work so Little?” concerns labor supply. Market work per person is roughly 10 percent higher in the U.S. READ MORE

6. 4. Prenatal influences on health outcomes over the lifespan : effects of smoking, socio-economic status and foetal growth

   Author : Lovisa Högberg; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : The most remarkable development during a person‟s life takes place in utero. Through about 280 days of proliferation and differentiation one single cell is developed into a human being. As this is the time when the whole body is formed, it is easy to imagine that exposures during this time can have health consequences over the lifespan. READ MORE

7. 5. Elderly South Africans' in transition : the daily life circumstances, beliefs concerning health and illness and the influences on caring and family structure

   Author : Doris Bohman; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Activities of daily living; Aged; Changing society; Elderly; Ethnography; Family; Health and illness beliefs; Interpretive phenomenology; Keeping normality; Modernization; Reciprocity; South Africa; Tradition; Transition; Activities of daily living; changing society; Elderly; Ethnography; Keeping normality; South Africa; health and illness beliefs; interpretive phenomenology; transition; aged; family; modernization; reciprocity; tradition;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to shed light on different aspects of elderly South Africans experiences in a transitional period in order to reach culturally contextual knowledge within gerontological care. The research objectives were to: identify and describe daily life and related concerns and interests as expressed by a group of elderly (I), illuminate how a group of elderly South Africans experience being old in a transitional period (II), study how a group of aged South Africans and their family members describe their intergenerational relations in a transitional period i. READ MORE