the timing of fertility. However, the positive impact of development on fertility is conditional on gender equality …A fundamental reversal of the traditional fertility-development relationship has occurred in highly developed countries … so that further socioeconomic development is no longer associated with decreasing fertility, but with increasing …

individuals are embedded. The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) supports research on these micro … recent advances in the implementation of this database. Although conceptually linked to the Generations and Gender Survey …

fertility, migration, and mortality. Both disciplines share a common research object, namely human populations, and they focus …. The main theoretical concepts in anthropological demography are culture, gender, and political economy; its empirical …

During the 1920s and early 1930s, fertility in American municipalities declined overall and with large variation … between areas and across time. Using data for 1923-1932 on fertility and public spending for over 50 large cities, we show … fertility. Fixed effects regressions indicate a $4 increase in per capita public health education spending or a $37 increase in …

of fertility postponement. After unification, fertility rates plummeted in the former East Germany to record low levels …. The number of births per year fell 60 percent. The period total fertility rate (TFR) reached a low of 0.8. Since the … middle of the 1990s, however, period fertility rates have been rising in East Germany, in contrast to the nearly constant …

In the twenty years since the reunification of Germany, we have seen a convergence of total fertility rates in the … paper is to better understand the persistence of these differences by studying the fertility behaviour of migrants from the …

-specific differences in behavior. In this study, we examine how the effects of unemployment on fertility vary by socio …, our results show that there are strong educational gradients in the unemployment and fertility nexus, and that the … relationship between unemployment and fertility varies by socioeconomic group. Fertility tends to be lower during periods of …

This paper studies the short-term fertility intentions of women and men and their subsequent behavior. On the one hand …, the predictive strength of fertility intentions is of interest. On the other hand, the most important determinants that … inhibit or enable the realization of fertility intentions are analyzed. Data from the first three waves of the German Family …

of childbearing. The purpose of the present paper is to display selected features of fertility in consensual and marital … unions in Romania over the period 1985-2005 based on the data from the national Generations and Gender Survey of 2005. To … this end we use underlying fertility rates specified by union duration and utilize a metric based on an aggregation of such …