examine the importance of social interactions in fertility outcomes by assessing family members’ scope of influence on their … effects of family members’ fertility outcomes on individual fertility to assess the presence and the extent of inter … importance of close kin influences on individual fertility and demonstrate the consequences of family structure for fertility …

childbearing in post-Soviet Russia. We employ a combination of methods to decompose fertility rates by union status and analyze the … is not due to the changing fertility behavior of cohabitors, nor to changes in union behavior after conception, but due …

understanding low fertility in this country, but that the role that family plays in a couple’s fertility decisions needs to be … expectations of employment and devoting themselves to family and children. The isolation of a nuclear family may also hinder family … residential independence of the new nuclear family. The empirical data are 74 semi-structured interviews with women between ages …

the effects of family policies on fertility. Theoretically we employ approaches of comparative welfare-state research, of … effects of family policies on childbearing and fertility. … effects of policies on fertility need to contextualize policies and reduce their complexities by focusing on “critical …

The whole region of the South and East Mediterranean exhibits a profound fertility transition with marked differences … in the pace of fertility declines among the countries. The authors choose three representative countries: Egypt, Morocco … and Turkey. Determinants of the propensity towards smaller family size are investigated as scrutinizing the development in …

German Family Panel (pairfam), which collected information on the partnership status at first birth using two different … methods. The first method is based on data on partnership and fertility histories collected retrospectively. The second method … children were born. We find that in almost 20 percent of the cases, the information collected using the first method did not …

We examine how family, money, and health explain variation in life satisfaction (“happiness”) over the life cycle … only at ages below 50. Remarkably, the contribution of family is small across ages. Across regions health is most important … in the wealthier, and income in the poorer regions of the world. Family explains a substantial fraction of happiness only …