Stimulated by the recent debate on gender roles and men’s fertility behaviour (Puur et al. 2008; Westoff and Higgins …, intentions to have many (3 or more) children, and high personal fertility ideals among low-parity men and women. Gender equality … raise men’s expected fertility compared to men with intermediate gender attitudes and independently of family values. Among …

eight European countries, men with egalitarian gender attitudes both desired and had more children than men with more … fertility, not only in the selected eight European countries but also in a considerable number of other developed countries. We …

in gender roles in Japan. METHODS I use data from the Single Persons subset of the 11th Japanese National Fertility … children. RESULTS Findings suggest that the effect of gender role attitudes on one’s child gender preference differs for men … and women. Overall, while daughter preference is associated with nontraditional gender role attitudes for men, daughter …

This paper investigates the impact of female employment on fertility in two urban contexts in sub-Saharan Africa: Dakar … reason for fertility decline in Dakar. These findings illustrate how important it is to consider social gender-specific roles …

fertility; and (2) Formal childcare availability has different effects across contexts, according to the degree of adaptation of …

the paper in details, and thereby also a rationale for a positive impact of increased gender equality on fertility. As the … dual-earner family is here to stay, and given the well-known negative consequences of long-term very low fertility for a …

-order birth rates jointly, with a common unobserved factor. The corresponding education-fertility relationships among men, however … corresponding effects for men are also positive, but not more strongly positive than those for women. These results may suggest that … we should not take for granted that women’s education generally reduces fertility, and that it does so because of …

still have an impact on the fertility behavior of men in adulthood. In particular, the transition rate to fatherhood was …This paper examines the relationship between work and family among men in Western Germany. We investigate the extent to …, men delay their transition to fatherhood. In particular, the delay was related to being unemployed, being self-employed or …

early 2000s. Examining within-country differences, we find that men with egalitarian attitudes seem to have higher fertility … norms, values and gender relations. There is theoretical support for the assumption that the persistence of low fertility … levels across Europe is likely to be linked to the incomplete gender revolution, more specifically to the lack of, or only …