Micro-level relationships between union formation or dissolution and childbearing have implications for fertility that … variation and change around replacement level fertility. On the one hand, union dissolution reduces opportunities for conceiving …' children. The balance between these two opposing forces and their implications for fertility levels is unknown and will depend …

population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …

We project the religious composition of the United States to 2043, considering fertility differences, migration …, intergenerational religious transmission and conversion by 11 ethnoreligious groups. If fertility and migration trends continue … younger age groups. Immigration drives growth among Hindus and Muslims, while low fertility explains decline among Jews. The …

Recent studies on fertility in Europe indicate the changing cross-country correlation between fertility and key … fertility-related indicators. Fertility now tends to be lowest in countries that are traditional, catholic and family oriented …, while fertility is highest in countries with high divorce rates, high rates of cohabitation and high levels of extra …

Short-term variations in fertility and seasonal patterns of childbearing have been of interest to demographers for a … long time. Presenting our detailed study of period fertility in Austria since 1984, we discuss the problems and advantages … of constructing and analysing various period fertility indicators that reflect real exposure and potentially minimise the …

subsequent pregnancy. We construct monthly duration and order-specific fertility rates and parity progression ratios to study … rates or on period fertility trends. As in most cases analysed for other developed countries, the main effect of the policy … change was on the tempo of fertility, namely on the spacing of second and third births. …

by prior research. This study investigates how female scientists’ fertility behaviour relates to their childbearing …

the sample. Up to now, very little was known about the fertility behaviour of academic women in Austria, but also in other … modern societies. The current sample - although very selective - will allow new insights in the fertility behaviour and in …

In the European context Austria's population has a tradition of low fertility. Between the world wars of the 20th … century Austria had the lowest fertility in Europe. It recovered most notably during the 1950s and early 1960s, but has been … which started with women born in the late 1940s. Women born during the 1970s had lower fertility than any previous cohorts …