fertility. Yet, some patterns cause concern. One concern is that the good recuperation at cohort level partly is explained by … relatively high fertility levels among women educated for female-dominated jobs with extensive part-time work. One may therefore … into fatherhood. Based on updated analyses of female as well as male fertility trends in Norway we address these issues …

fertility. We note the polarization between, on the one hand, those who view public policies as obvious means for lifting the … currently low fertility levels in Europe, in line with the role of economic policies in a modern society; and, on the other hand … seek to investigate policy impacts on fertility behavior. While properly conducted empirical investigations have overcome …

The relatively high and rising fertility rates of Nordic countries in the late 1980s and early 1990s sparked a renewed … policy indicators have been incorporated in economic fertility models that also control for female wages. This paper …

rests on how welfare state alignment affects fertility rationales in the context of either promising or bleak occupational …

During recent decades fertility in Sweden has evolved in tandem with the business cycle. Supported by social policies …