This paper investigates whether and how regional social contexts influence fertility decisions of women living in … western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. It is argued that regional opportunity structures as well as local patterns of … for the transition to the first and second child. The empirical analysis provides no evidence that fertility differentials …

the timing of marriage, must probably be understood as the principal origin of different patterns of fertility across …

on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was …Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive effect …, the negative effect of social security on fertility tends to erode the system's own contributory base, because it reduces …

This paper investigates whether and how regional social contexts influence fertility decisions of women living in … western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. It is argued that regional opportunity structures as well as local patterns of … for the transition to the first and second child. The empirical analysis provides no evidence that fertility differentials …

effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was …Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive …, the negative effect of social security on fertility tends to erode the system s own contributory base, because it reduces …