in the two different institutional and normative contexts of Eastern and Western Germany. Using the German Socio … a second birth in Germany, due to the decline in allocation role strain. …

This paper uses recently available data from linked pension and employment registers for Germany, which contain …

than men. These results, which are similar in Britain and Germany, suggest that childbearing increases parental happiness …

part of Germany and western Germany. Although the demography of these two regions has converged with respect to mortality … and overall fertility levels, non-marital births are the norm in eastern Germany but the exception in western Germany. A … number of explanations, stemming from the policy and socio-economic conditions of eastern and western Germany in recent …

Germany, the U.K., France, Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Italy, Spain, and Israel. …

In the twenty years since the reunification of Germany, we have seen a convergence of total fertility rates in the …

Some 20 years after unification, the contrast between East and West Germany provides a unique natural experiment for … of fertility postponement. After unification, fertility rates plummeted in the former East Germany to record low levels … middle of the 1990s, however, period fertility rates have been rising in East Germany, in contrast to the nearly constant …

for the realization of short-term childbearing intentions is tested in the low-fertility context of Germany. Our …

for Germany. We speculate on various sources for this bias in the data. However, we were unable to find a remedy to cure …

Until 2008, Germany’s vital statistics did not include information on the biological order of each birth. This resulted …