of childbearing. The purpose of the present paper is to display selected features of fertility in consensual and marital … this end we use underlying fertility rates specified by union duration and utilize a metric based on an aggregation of such … children outside marriage. This turns out to be women with a low educational attainment and women of a rural origin. Women in …

By current European standards, Sweden has had a relatively high fertility in recent decades. During the 1980s and 1990s …, the annual Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for Sweden undulated considerably around a level just under 1.8, which is a bit ….76 on an upward trend.) The Swedish completed Cohort Fertility Rate (CFR) was rather constant at 2 for the cohorts that …

This is the second of two companion papers addressing the association between educational attainment and fertility for … first paper is about childlessness and education, the present one about the mean number of children ever born. We find that … ultimate fertility decreases somewhat with an increasing educational level, but its dependence on the field of education is …