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Selected Recent Publications
Schifris, Gustavo and Barbara S. Okun. 2024. Cohort Fertility of Immigrants to Israel from the Former Soviet Union. Demographic Research. Forthcoming.
Schellekens, J. Jona and Barbara S. Okun. 2023. Religiosity and Overall Life Satisfaction: Muslim Arabs in Israel. Journal of Religion and Health. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10943-023-01937-x
Friedlander, Dov and Barbara S. Okun. 2022. Demographic Transition and the Industrial Revolution in England: Inverse Rural and Urban Processes. Journal of Family History 47(4):401-412.
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Okun, Barbara S. and Guy Stecklov. 2021. The Impact of Grandparental Death on the Fertility of Adult Children. Demography. 58(3):847–870.
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Okun, Barbara S. and Liat Raz-Yurovich. 2019. Housework, Gender Role Attitudes, and Couples' Fertility Intentions: Reconsidering Men's Roles in Gender Theories of Family Change. Population and Development Review 45(1): 169–196.
Okun, Barbara S. 2017. Religiosity and Fertility: Jews in Israel. European Journal of Population 33(4), 475-507.
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Manor, Avital and Barbara S. Okun. 2016. Cohabitation among Secular Jews in Israel: How Ethnicity, Education, and Employment Characteristics are Related to Young Adults' Living Arrangements. Demographic Research 35(32):962-990.
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Okun, Barbara S. 2016. Insights into unexpectedly high fertility: Secular, native-born Jews in Israel. Population Studies 70(2):239-257.
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Dov Friedlander, Barbara S. Okun, and Calvin Goldscheider. 2016. Ethno/religious hierarchy in educational achievement and socioeconomic status in Israel: An historical perspective. In Nabil Khattab, Sami Miaari, and Haya Stier (eds.) Socioeconomic Inequality in Israel: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 97-121.
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Okun, Barbara S. 2013. Fertility and Family Behavior in Israel: Diversity, Change and Stability. Demographic Research 28:457-504.
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Okun, Barbara S. and Shlomit Kagya. 2012. Fertility Change among post-1989 Immigrants to Israel from the Former Soviet Union. International Migration Review 46(4):792-827.
Okun, Barbara S. and Orna Khait-Marelly. 2010. The Impact of Intermarriage on Ethnic Stratification: Jews in Israel. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 28(4):375-394
Works in Progress​
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Liat Raz-Yurovich and Barbara S. Okun. Are Highly Educated Men Really More Gender Egalitarian? A Couple-level Analysis of Social Class Differentials in Attitudes and Behaviors. Submitted.
Barbara S. Okun and Liat Raz-Yurovich. 2023. Gender Division of Housework and Outsourcing:
Complementary or Competing Strategies? In preparation.
Okun, Barbara S. Ideal Family Size among Immigrants to Israel from the Former Soviet Union:
An Examination of the Socialization Hypothesis. In preparation.
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