This paper investigates the effect of education on the timing of marriage among Kenyan women and the relative effects … statistically significant and strong positive effect on a woman’s age at first marriage; the effect remaining robust in the … presence of a number of controls. The highly educated women are more likely to delay marriage. Significant variations in the …

We observe that a dynamic population model can have period fertility that is always below replacement and cohort … that it must become smaller. Cohort replacement does not imply population replacement, and emphasizing fertility timing and … cohort fertility ignores the issue of relative cohort size. The resolution of this apparent paradox reinforces the importance …

Using detailed data on period and cohort fertility in four European countries, this paper discusses various indicators … comparison of cohort fertility and corresponding indicators of period fertility; particular attention is paid to the periods of … intensive postponement of childbearing. Some period indicators come consistently closer to the completed cohort fertility than …

, with the most recent data available suggesting that cohort and period fertility is at or above replacement-level. We …

states entered via the formation and dissolution of cohabitation and marriage and the birth of the first child. [Methods:] We …