This paper contributes to the analysis of fertility differentials between migrants and the native-born by examining the … of immigrants being a distinct group rather than assimilating or conforming to the native fertility patterns. Second, our …

characteristics of women and their first marriages – related to the cultural context of fertility behavior – are investigated with … had the highest third-birth risk. While the fertility decline among Turkish women has been constant for two decades, the … fertility remains high among illiterate Kurdish women, who can be classified as laggards in the Turkey’s fertility transition. …

Nowadays, throughout Morocco a dynamic process of modernization is embracing fertility and nuptial behaviors, family …, challenging the foundations of the patriarchal system. The progression from second to third birth is a crucial step in fertility … change during fertility transition since the reduction especially in third and higher-order births maintains fertility …

marriage and fertility behavior therefore was expected to be severely affected by the upheavals following unification. And … particular are postponing fertility. Women with a relatively low education, by contrast, are accelerating family formation …. Contrary to standard views on East German fertility, we do not find evidence for the hypothesis that unemployment generally …

There is a growing body of literature that looks at the causes of below-replacement fertility in developed countries … studied in detail, little is known about the differences in fertility patterns across settlements within a country. A few … recent studies suggest that there are persistent differentials between high- and low-fertility settlements in contemporary …

-history techniques to data from the “Marriage, Fertility, and Migration” survey conducted in northern Kyrgyzstan in 2005 to estimate …

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 …

understanding low fertility in this country, but that the role that family plays in a couple’s fertility decisions needs to be …