Recent stagnation in the reduction of infant mortality in India can arguably be attributed to early child bearing practices and the lack of progress in lengthening birth intervals. Meanwhile, family planning efforts have been particularly successful in the southern states such as Andhra Pradesh,...

This study investigates whether a female’s entry into motherhood is influenced by the kin orientation of her social network. We use data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) and define kin orientation as the number of relatives who a female reports within her three closest...

This article explores family behaviours and attitudes in Israel over the last decades through the lens of the Second Demographic Transition (SDT). Israel is divided by religious affiliation, the level of religiosity, ethnic origin and timing of immigration. Although fertility transition to...

This article investigates continued childbearing among the highly educated according to profession and gender. The determinants of having a second or a third birth are analyzed multivariately using longitudinal data from population registers in Sweden, 1991-2009. Net of demographic and...

High parity tends to be associated with socioeconomic disadvantage, which is widely believed to be a risk factor for low birth weight. Using a fixed-effects approach (comparing children of the same mother born within the five-year period preceding Demographic and Health Surveys), this paper...

The effect of education on the transition to second births is examined using three waves of the Hungarian GGS data. We hypothesize that higher education increases the hazard of second conception and this effect is due to the presence of highly educated partner. Parity-specific survival models...

Thanks to the recent development of rich datasets including both economic and cultural variables, economists are now able to properly measure the impact of culture on economic behaviors. This has conduct to the emergence of models where individual fertility results from the interaction between...