Bongaarts and Feeney (1998) have recently proposed an adjusted total fertility rate to disentangle tempo effects from … changes in the quantum of fertility. We propose an extension to the Bongaarts and Feeney formula that includes variance … effects, i.e., changes in the variance of the fertility schedule over time. If these variance effects are ignored, the mean …

Demographers have increasingly argued that social interaction is an important mechanism for understanding fertility … affect women´s contraceptive use. In areas in which social influence retards diffusion of family planning, therefore, with …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … living with a single mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the workplace …

are: (i) the secular decline in fertility between 1800 and 1980, (ii) the decline in agricultural employment and the rise …