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Alice Goisis

Associate Professor, UCL
Verified email at ucl.ac.uk
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[HTML][HTML] Advantages of later motherhood

M Myrskylä, K Barclay, A Goisis - Der Gynakologe, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background In high-income countries childbearing has been increasingly postponed since
the 1970s and it is crucial to understand the consequences of this demographic shift. The …

Happiness and childbearing across Europe

A Aassve, A Goisis, M Sironi - Social indicators research, 2012 - Springer
Using happiness as a well-being measure and comparative data from the European social
survey we focus in this paper on the link between happiness and childbearing across …

Social age deadlines for the childbearing of women and men

FC Billari, A Goisis, AC Liefbroer… - Human …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND This study examines whether social age deadlines exist for childbearing in
women and men, how they vary across countries, whether they are lower than actual …

Grandparenting and mothers' labour force participation: A comparative analysis using the generations and gender survey

A Aassve, B Arpino, A Goisis - Demographic Research, 2012 - JSTOR
BACKGROUND It is well known that the provision of public childcare plays an important role
for women labour force participation and its availability varies tremendously across …

Advanced maternal age and the risk of low birth weight and preterm delivery: a within-family analysis using Finnish population registers

A Goisis, H Remes, K Barclay… - American journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Advanced maternal age at birth is considered a major risk factor for birth outcomes. It is
unclear to what extent this association is confounded by maternal characteristics. To test …

Why are poorer children at higher risk of obesity and overweight? A UK cohort study

A Goisis, A Sacker, Y Kelly - The European Journal of Public …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background: There is limited evidence on which risk factors attenuate income inequalities in
child overweight and obesity; whether and why these inequalities widen as children age …

The demographics of assisted reproductive technology births in a Nordic country

A Goisis, SE Håberg, HI Hanevik… - Human …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
STUDY QUESTION What are the socio-demographic characteristics of families in Norway
who have children after assisted reproductive technology (ART), and have these …

Medically assisted reproduction and birth outcomes: a within-family analysis using Finnish population registers

A Goisis, H Remes, P Martikainen, R Klemetti… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Children born after medically assisted reproduction are at higher risk of adverse
birth outcomes than are children conceived naturally. We aimed to establish the extent to …

Childbearing postponement and child well-being: a complex and varied relationship?

A Goisis, W Sigle-Rushton - Demography, 2014 - read.dukeupress.edu
Over the past several decades, US fertility has followed a trend toward the postponement of
motherhood. The socioeconomic causes and consequences of this trend have been the …

ART and the forgotten siblings: a call for research

E Somigliana, F Parazzini, A Goisis… - Human …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
A broader definition of infertility is the incapacity to have the intended number of children.
However, most literature on ART exclusively focuses on live birth as an outcome, rather than …