Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96961 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Vienna Institute of Demography Working Papers No. 5/2007
Publisher: 
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Vienna
Abstract: 
Empirical studies indicate that the transition to parenthood is influenced by an individual's peer group. To study the mechanisms that create interdependencies across individuals' transition to parenthood and its timing we apply an agent-based simulation model. We build a one-sex model and provide agents with four different characteristics. Based on these characteristics, agents endogenously form their network. Network members then may influence the agents' transition to higher parity levels. Our numerical simulations indicate that accounting for social interactions can explain the shift of first-birth probabilities in Austria over the period 1984 to 2004. Moreover, we apply our model to forecast age-specific fertility rates up to 2021.
Subjects: 
Transition to parenthood
changes in age specific fertility rates
agent-based model
social interaction
endogenous network
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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