Cheng, Pao-Chih Roger; Lin, Eric S. - In: Demographic Research 23 (2010) 9, pp. 223-256
This paper develops a simple age-period-cohort framework in completing incomplete cohort fertility schedules, and makes full use of 1917--2005 U.S. data to obtain robust outcomes. Empirically, we indicate that the period effect is the key to transforming a fertility level into a fertility...