Fertility and union histories from German GGS data: some critical reflections

Abstract

This paper tries to validate the fertility and marriage histories of the German Generations and Gender Survey (GGS).One major result from this validation is that the fertility of the older GGS cohorts is too low, while it is too high for the younger cohorts.For marriage histories, we find a similar bias.In sum, the GGS gives wrong cohort fertility and marriage trends for Germany.We speculate on various sources for this bias in the data.

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