Demographers have increasingly argued that social interaction is an important mechanism for understanding fertility …

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 …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …

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

Total fertility in Austria has declined slowly but persistently from about 1.7 in the late 1970s to around 1.4 in the …

whole. Research has focused on the effect postponing fertility has on the labor market outcomes for mothers and on the total … force participation and wages but may have negative effects on overall fertility, especially in the absence of supportive …

This report tries to explain observed changes in fertility rates across OECD countries, with an emphasis on socio …-economic considerations. It aims to extend the understanding of fertility-related behaviours in different ways: first, by explaining recent … developments in fertility rates and their relationships to other social drivers; second, by developing and testing new and expanded …