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Does early childbearing and a sterilization-focused family planning programme in India fuel population growth?
Matthews, Zoë; Padmadas, Sabu; Hutter, Inge; … - In: Demographic Research 20 (2009) 28, pp. 693-720
with the continuation of fertility concentrated in the younger age groups. Results from the cohort component population … about 52 million less in 2050 than if the current early fertility trajectory is continued. …
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The Netherlands: Childbearing within the context of a "Poldermodel" society
Fokkema, Tineke; Valk, Helga A.G.; Beer, Joop A.A.; … - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 21, pp. 743-794
The Netherlands has seen a considerable decline of the period total fertility rate and delayed childbearing, just like … all other European countries. The drop in fertility, however, has not been as sharp as in many other regions of Europe …. The period total fertility rate in the Netherlands has stabilized since the late 1970s at around 1.6 children per woman …
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Is Latin America starting to retreat from early and universal childbearing?
Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Castro-Martín, Teresa; … - In: Demographic Research 20 (2009) 9, pp. 169-194
The 2000 censuses show that the proportion of women below age 30 who are mothers has dropped substantially in most Latin America countries, suggesting that the social imperative of early motherhood, which has long prevailed in the region, is weakening. Surveys conducted in 14 Latin American...
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Empirical Assessments of Social Networks, Fertility and Family Planning Programs
Kohler, Hans-Peter; Behrman, Jere R.; Watkins, Susan - In: Demographic Research 3 (2000) 7
Empirical studies of the diffusion of modern methods of family planning have increasing incorporated social interaction within nonlinear models such as logits. But they have not considered the full implications of these nonlinear specifications. This paper considers the implications of using...
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The institutionalization and pace of fertility in American stepfamilies
Li, Jui-Chung Allen - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 12, pp. 237-266
This paper compares nonparametric fertility rates for American women in stepfamilies and intact families using data … intact families. Regardless of stepfamily status, timings and levels of fertility for second and third marital births are … identical for all women at the same lifetime parity. Fertility patterns are also similar for all first marital births, with the …
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Educational attainment and ultimate fertility among Swedish women born in 1955-59
Hoem, Jan M.; Neyer, Gerda; Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 16, pp. 381-404
This is the second of two companion papers addressing the association between educational attainment and fertility for … ultimate fertility decreases somewhat with an increasing educational level, but its dependence on the field of education is … ultimate fertility, and educational groups with much childlessness have relatively low ultimate fertility. In particular, women …
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The Fertility Pattern of Twins and the General Population Compared: Evidence from Danish Cohorts 1945-64
Kohler, Hans-Peter; Knudsen, Lisbeth B.; Skytthe, Axel; … - In: Demographic Research 6 (2002) 14, pp. 383-408
structural models with controls for endowments. These possibilities are increasingly used in the context of fertility and related … behaviors. A close congruence between the fertility patterns of twins and that of the general population, however, is an … essential pre-condition in order to generalize the results of twin-based investigations of fertility and related behaviors to …
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Childbearing dynamics of couples in a universalistic welfare state
Andersson, Gunnar; Scott, Kirk - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 30, pp. 897-938
This article studies childbearing dynamics by labor-market status of co-residing parents in Sweden. We apply event-history techniques to longitudinal register data on the life histories of foreign-born mothers from ten different countries and the partners to these women, as well as to a sample...
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Interconnections among changing family structure, childrearing and fertility behaviour among the Ogu, Southwestern Nigeria
Wusu, Onipede; Isiugo-Abanihe, Uche - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 8, pp. 139-156
The interconnections of family transformation, childrearing and fertility behaviour are explored. Data were generated …
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New fertility trends in Norway
Lappegård, Trude - In: Demographic Research 2 (2000) 3
Behind a stable and relatively high fertility level in Norway during the 1990s we find increasing differences in the … pattern of fertility both in regard to the timing of the first childbirth and number of children born. In this paper, data … from the Central Population Register in Norway are used to provide a review of recent fertility trends and discuss the …
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