covering up to 60 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, and Oceania. This paper presents conceptual considerations and …

fellow kin’s fertility behavior. With the unique KASS genealogical dataset from eight countries in Europe, we study the … examine the importance of social interactions in fertility outcomes by assessing family members’ scope of influence on their … effects of family members’ fertility outcomes on individual fertility to assess the presence and the extent of inter …

This paper investigates the role of states and regions in shaping spatial patterns of non-marital fertility in Europe … variation in nonmarital fertility levels increased as a whole across Europe, and states continued to be important for … substantial nonmarital fertility increases over the last 50 years. Prior research by Watkins (1991) has shown that in the first …

show that the cross-country correlations in Europe between the total fertility level on the one side, and the total first … fertility on the one, and cohort fertility and key fertility-related behaviors---such as leaving the parental home, marriage and … female labor force participation---on the other side. First, we identify a systematic pattern of lowest-low fertility that is …

births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing … within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using retrospective union and fertility histories, we employ competing risk … hazard models to examine the educational gradient of childbearing in cohabitation in 8 countries across Europe. In all …

comparative database of rich reproductive and union histories from surveys conducted in a number of countries in Europe. Given … conduct cross-national analyses of recent union and fertility behavior over time. A team of researchers called the Nonmarital …, and Russia; the 2003 Dutch Fertility and Family Survey; and the British Household Panel Survey. …

understanding of fertility regimes. Elsewhere, we have shown that diversity with respect to fertility quantum is increasing from … by long last birth interval of about 11 years. Age distributions of fertility for women from this cluster are bimodal and … their shape points at unexpectedly “renewed” fertility careers. Additional births produced by the phenomenon compose about 6 …

This article explores the relationship between family policies, fertility, employment and care. It suggests that …

the effects of family policies on fertility. Theoretically we employ approaches of comparative welfare-state research, of … effects of policies on fertility need to contextualize policies and reduce their complexities by focusing on “critical … effects of family policies on childbearing and fertility. …