Using an epidemiological approach, we study the cultural influence on fertility outcomes of first- and second … fertility rates from the year of migration, survey measures of fertility norms and cohort fertility rates from the year of birth … identification. We find a statistically significant, sizeable and robust impact of country-of-origin fertility rates on fertility …

empirically in a cross-sectional framework with data from Bolivian household surveys. Instead of focusing on actual fertility ….e. the adaptation of desired to actual fertility levels - is taken into account. The empirical findings are in line with the … predictions of these models. Furthermore a weak but significant negative impact of fertility exceeding the desired level on …

Simon Szreter's book Fertility, Class, and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940 argues that social and economic class fails to … explain the cross-sectional differences in marital fertility asreported in the 1911 census of England and Wales. Szreter … causes of the European fertility decline of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For decades scholars have argued whether …

The present study reports on results emerging from the research project «Fertility and Prosperity: Links between … countries and (b) a survey of fertility outcomes and family policies in a limited number of developed countries. The results … indicate that the decline in fertility observed in the past, through its impact on the size and age-composition of the labour …