Ireland's relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive … literature on the fertility transition elsewhere in Europe to refine and test leading hypotheses in their Irish context. The …

model, relating observed drops in fertility post-Communism to new wages, prices, and risks. Earnings influence total demand …

Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data from 1989 to 1999, we examine the impact of family cap policies, which deny … Department of Health and Human Services to implement family caps as "natural experiments." Specifically, we compare trends in out …-of-wedlock birth rates in Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey and Virginia to trends in states that did not implement family caps or …

The decline of human fertility that occurred in Europe and North America in the nineteenth century, and elsewhere in … fertility in that German kingdom in the nineteenth century. Bavaria's fertility transition was later and less dramatic than in … other parts of Germany. The European Fertility Project, the most influential study of the European fertility transition …